But for the picturesque Super Bowl host city -- perpetually concerned with its reputation, especially since Hurricane Katrina -- the power failure broadcast to the world was a huge embarrassment.

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The PC power supply is probably the most failure-prone item in a personal computer.

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George Bush had risen in the Republican Party after the failure of anti-government conservatives who took power in Washington after the 1994 election.

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The price rise is to offset additional costs faced by Guernsey Electricity after a cable link failure to France forced it to produce on-island power.

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Regardless of the success or failure of these ambitious anti-nuclear energy agendas, the age of atomic power is anything but over.

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Pricing information aside, utilities and grid operators could more accurately pinpoint the location of a problem in the electrical network--eliminating the need for repair crews to scramble for hours to determine where a power failure has occurred.

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Mr Greenspan says a high-level panel of American financial officials should be given broad power to seize any financial institution whose failure threatens the entire economy, bail out its creditors and close it down.

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Readers may recall that this special FDIC power to manage the failure of a financial giant, called "Orderly Liquidation Authority" in Dodd-Frank, was promoted by its backers as a way to rain fire and brimstone upon a failing bank and its creditors.

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The problem, say Winn and Power, wasn't the strategy of selling online at cut-rate prices--it was the failure to implement Winn's revolutionary retailing vision and to utilize his talents.

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