This happened a few more times, providing a realistic taste of scientific research, where the most common experience is failure.
But the result in terms of dealing with the basic problem is failure.
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But Musk is thriving in industries where the default expectation is failure.
One of the new offences is failure by a firm to prevent third parties (such as contractors or agents) greasing palms on its behalf.
However, there is another type of experience that teaches more than most others, particularly when it comes to building future leaders, and that is failure.
The second threat is failure to secure the medium-term structural shifts in fiscal positions, in management of the financial sector and in export-dependency, that are needed if a sustained and healthy global recovery is to occur.
It indicates that educational failure is "a personal disaster" for those concerned but has implications for the rest of society too, as this failure is often linked to unemployment, ill-health and possible involvement in crime.
Now Apple has acknowledged that Ping is a failure and Apple is abandoning the effort.
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One attribute of our increasingly volatile business world is how often failure is punished on a dime.
The test of a great leader, though, is how that failure is handled.
Even so, Dr Williams was accused of a failure to lead, that is a failure to command, cajole and coerce Anglicans.
It is a failure to notice the significance of what is already happening.
And it is this failure to listen, Nasiri tells us, is what prompted him to bypass intelligence agencies and write his book.
Entrepreneurship is a career path in which evolution is the norm and failure is a given.
What we have to realize is that this kind of failure is systematic, not an aberration.
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All failure in communication is due to failure caused by one word only: expectations.
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The first is that Venezuela's failure is primarily one of the state, rather than of the market.
This spill is about human failure and it is time BP put its hand up and admitted that.
"The problem is whether the whole operation is judged a success or failure is now effectively out of our hands, " he said.
Currently pig livers are sometimes considered for transplant when a patient is in liver failure and there is no human organ available.
"This is not a failure, today is success deferred and deferred by not very long, " said the chief UK negotiator, Jo Adamson, who called the draft a "good, strong treaty".
There's a high level of cynicism in Africa towards rich Westerners who arrive promising to bring good things to the world's most impoverished continent, but Brandling-Bennett says the Gates Foundation is taking the attitude that failure is not an option.
Another is the failure of Democrats to excite us with a positive alternative vision.
It is a failure, by people far more senior, to heed a more fundamental military command.
"This essentially is an acknowledgment that their original plan is a failure, " Raz says.
"You remember, 'What we've got here is a failure to communicate, ' " he says.
"The fact is the law right now is a failure, the way it's working, " he said.
Otherwise, there is a failure exception when a waiting customer does not receive a response.
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