At that task it has never failed, unlike every fiat currency in history.

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As for the Wii, Nintendo did announce that it would launch the console in China in 2008 (and iQue even obtained the CCC in December 2007), but that never happened after it failed to get the other authorities' approval.

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The right-hander never failed to make it out of the first in his 110 previous starts.

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Notorious companies such as Boston Consulting Group and Ferrero have never failed to attend it from its very first edition in 2007.

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Even failed plays with songs that never made it into the canon (or in front of the cannon) are gone over at length.

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Though the failed pilot never received a network pickup, it leaked onto file-sharing service BitTorrent and, thousands of downloads later, it proved there clearly was an audience for it.

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We've never failed to pay Social Security for senior citizens who've earned it.

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Kodak, by sticking to its old school philosophy that the photo is king, failed to see that there would never be a sustainable market for what it wanted to sell.

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You'd never guess from the breathless marketing that when Lifeway tested ProBugs in a clinical trial, it failed spectacularly.

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"They went dark and never came out, " says Fox, who owned the stock for a while but sold it when the company failed to unravel the accounting problems.

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