They will pound him for being a miserable failure as the governor of Massachusetts.

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Eight years ago GM scuttled its first joint venture in China because it was such a miserable failure.

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He will be hardly hung out to dry if they just miss out, although miserable failure would be another matter.

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The economy dominated the opening exchanges of first minister's question time, with Scottish Labour Leader Iain Gray saying Alex Salmond's government would leave a "legacy of miserable failure".

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Firstly, that as a domestic leader, he is a miserable failure, but that in contrast, he is something of a titanic figure on the European stage, after a magnificent six months in charge of the rotating EU presidency.

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The sooner the president recognizes that Obamacare threatens to be a miserable failure when it comes to corralling Medicare spending, the sooner we can get on with the business of fundamentally overhauling Medicare so that it actually looks like a 21st century health plan and is sustainable for generations to come.

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And despite its depressing enumeration of the failure of so many schools, particularly in poorer urban areas, its miserable ending, and the bleakness of its title, the movie also has a message of hope: there are good schools and teachers in America, whose methods could make its education system as good as any in the world if only they were allowed to.

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