He suggested potential loan receivers shouldn't look at the stress tests in terms of pass or fail.

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This time banks will get a chance to make changes to their proposed capital deployment plan before the Fed gives them a pass or fail grade.

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Obama's health care plan will fail either to pass into law, or if it becomes law, it will fail to live up to his promises.

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Every year through to Grade 12, we sit three exams at the end of each term for every single subject, and the final term exam we have to pass (and pass it well), or we fail and we would have to repeat the year, while some of our friends move on.

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Hence, testing facilities have ample incentive to exhibit leniency, meaning, they manipulate the testing equipment or find other ways to pass vehicles that should fail to keep their customers loyal.

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And we shouldn't expect some binary moment, a pass-fail grade where, you know, the whole war, yes or no, is decided.

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