The Superdome's power company took the blame Friday for the Super Bowl blackout, saying the cause was a faulty device that had been installed in its switching gear to prevent a failure of electric cables leading to the stadium.
According to the prescription, the two governments should have borrowed vastly more, spent more again, in order to prevent such a failure of the economy.
Not only did that prevent the repeat of a failure, but it sometimes led to valuable insights on, say, how to make a manufacturing process more efficient.
But do our police forces have a blind spot, a failure to prevent murders that are just waiting to happen?
My advice may not prevent mistakes altogether, but the awareness it recommends may help CEOs rig a safety net to prevent full-fledged 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.
The group's chairman, Chris Spurr, said that although many saw the League of Nations as a failure because it did not prevent conflict, he believed Sean Lester "embodied the best ideals of international co-operation".
But last July one of the spacecraft's four reaction wheels broke down, leaving scientists aware that a further failure was likely and would prevent the telescope operating as it should.
Winston Churchill considered his inability to prevent the carnage of World War II to be a personal failure.
Yet every summit highlights that no one is in fact in charge in Europe and no one has a mandate to do what is necessary to prevent the failure of the Euro.
It recognizes that a failure to prove other predicates to presumed reliance will prevent class certification.
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It is supposed to determine who was responsible for the failure of a 2002 ceasefire, suggest ways to prevent another war and foster reconciliation and to promote restitution for those affected.
She used to be a big prescriber of omega-3 fish oil, but has stopped because the failure of niacin, a drug that lowered triglycerides, to prevent heart attacks and strokes.
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AtheroGenics saw the failure of its key trial of AGI-1067, a pill designed to prevent heart attacks and strokes, torpedo the chances of the drug being approved in the next year.
One of the industries brightest and most prominent researchers, Mikko Hypponen of F-Secure, offered a public mea culpa last week for the failure of Anti-Virus vendors to detect and prevent advanced malware such as the recently discovered Flame.
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Even though Kickstarter has no enforcement mechanism to prevent con artists from using the system to raise funds for fake projects, it is clear that with a direct failure rate well below 5%, founders take their obligations seriously.
Genzyme is itself involved in a European 300-patient phase II trial that attempts to use skeletal muscle cells from the leg to prevent heart failure.
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