Nevertheless, there are many important economic and social failures that are part of the Thatcher legacy.

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These social failures rack up enormous bills for the taxpayer.

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The resulting rash of business failures and social unrest further undermined the region's currencies - the exact opposite of what the IMF aimed to do.

CNN: Bright Ideas

Remember Google's previous forays with Buzz and Wave have been regarded as failures in the social arena.

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Free markets and governments have their own successes and failures in advancing economic and social prosperity.

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The achievements of social democracy were large, and its failures, by comparison, relatively minor.

NEWYORKER: Evening the Odds

Shadow leader of the Lords Baroness Royall declined to push the matter to a vote but attacked the government for failures on the economy and on social policy.

BBC: Queen's Speech debate part two

First there were the social products Buzz and Wave, both of which were embarrassing failures.

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Haiti's failures are rooted in its history, but also in its social and racial divisions.

ECONOMIST: Haiti

His governance had notable successes and failures, but his approach of using simple paradigms and ideas to solve complex social and economic problems is a valid form of applied intellectualism.

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Ironically, some of the worst personal branding failures are Millennials, who have grown up with so much new and innovative social technology that they take it for granted rather than exploiting their familiarity with it.

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