On Wednesday, German bank Helaba withdrew from the stress tests to avoid public failure.
But Nyad's biggest success came only after her biggest, most public failure.
And where else can public failure be so easily shrugged off?
The round of venture funding took LightSail Energy a year to close, after the very public failure of solar energy giant Solyndra spooked investors in the energy sector.
Mr Reading believes the failure on public sector pay speaks to a general failure to focus on the right things in designing the deficit strategy.
As the public concern about privacy is increasing, the failure of public agencies to take forceful action is becoming a problem.
The public understands this failure perhaps better than economists and politicians.
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Enacted in 1994, Section 514 restores copyrights in foreign works previously in the public domain for failure to comply with formalities, lack of subject matter protection or lack of national eligibility, according to the opinion.
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The Inquisition was a public recognition of the failure of the priests.
Yet G4S, whose share price has slumped in the wake of the debacle, is not the only embarrassing failure in public-sector outsourcing.
In 2010, MSPs said the public agency's failure to take account of risks to the running of the funicular railway led to "spiralling" costs.
Argentina's difficulties now owe much to Mr Menem's failure to reform public spending.
Barca also made public its annoyance at the failure of the officials to rule out Zlatan Ibrahimovic's strike, which came with the forward in an offside position.
There are many reasons for this beyond a failure of the public to commit to the necessary taxes, and Freddie deBoer has done a good job suggesting ways to rein in spending.
The judge ruled there had been a failure by a public inquiry inspector "properly to interpret and apply the relevant planning policies on the effect of development on the setting of heritage sites, which meant that the balancing exercise was flawed".
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Ironically, the government's failure to restore public confidence in banks may be good news for its own postal savings system, which, as the world's biggest financial institution, controls about a third of the savings market and is badly in need of reform.
The cars, which can be seen elsewhere in Tunisia as well, were luxury vehicles favored by the Tunisian elite, torched by a revolutionary public fed up with the failure of those elites to provide economic opportunity that would lead to a life of dignity.
For years, Tory modernisers such as Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne fretted about their party's failure to appeal to public-sector workers.
It was textbook public relations, aided by the failure of Quebec's mainstream media to examine just why the storm had done such damage.
Officers may ask a person to stop drinking in a public place for various reasons and failure to comply makes a person liable to be arrested.
Last month campaigners against the scheme lost a High Court case when a judge rejected their complaint that there had been a failure to consult the public properly over the "eco-towns" policy.
Mr Annan has agonised in public about the UN's failure in Rwanda, when he was head of un peacekeeping, and has argued that his success as a peace-broker in Kenya last year owed something to the existence of R2P as a moral instrument.
Acute kidney injury (also known as kidney failure) is a major public health concern.
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The Honduran government began deploying troops on the streets last year in response to a public outcry over violent crime and the failure of the police to ensure security.
Ahead of the annual conference in Brighton, the deputy prime minister issued a public apology for his party's failure to honour its pledge to oppose any rise in student tuition fees in England.
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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We systematically cull low-performers in the private sector where consequences for failure are far less than for public schools.
The failure to sell stakes in large public energy and engineering concerns suggests that Mr Berlusconi thinks that privatisation means raising cash without losing control.
For one thing, failure could undermine future efforts in public health.
Has the White House consistently underestimated the level of public outrage, whether it's about failure to pay taxes by some of your nominees or the bonuses now to some of the companies on Wall Street?
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