In recent years, though, questions have mounted over whether the system is fail-safe.
Hurricane Sandy has been a vivid example of how quickly the air travel system can fail when things start to snowball.
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If a second-rate exchange is first to attract a critical mass of trading, even a better trading system may fail to wrest business away.
It will check for faulty wiring in headlights and then replace parts of the headlight wiring system that could fail.
"It's good to know that we're upgrading and doing something better for the public of New York City ... but if you're going to spend the money on a system, this system should never fail, " Roper said.
They fail to address the larger structural problems with our current socioeconomic system, and more than that, they fail to capitalize on the emerging cleantech boom that some call the Second Industrial Revolution.
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But maintaining a remote fail-safe system is trickier when dealing with employees' devices, which store their own apps, photos and other information.
They should also have a system for identifying patients who fail to attend appointments and a means of dealing with those that cause concern.
However, there are still many pockets of actual or potential exclusion: children who enter the educational system late, who repeatedly fail, who do not benefit from learning experiences that allow them to develop their capacities and who encounter discrimination.
Now Israel's airport authority is trying to explain how the knife got through what is vaunted as a fail-safe security system.
The last Labour UK government introduced the ban on dual candidacy to avoid a situation where candidates could be overwhelmingly defeated in a constituency but get elected via the regional list top-up system, which compensates parties that fail to win first-past-the-post seats.
The argument rests on anecdote, on the current failure, and on common sense, which says that a producer-driven system insulated from parents and children will fail.
Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg prompted widespread derision from the opposition benches as he declined to rule out taking a seat in the House of Lords under an appointed system, were his planned reforms to fail.
Raising awareness that help is available, educating people that they too can be part of the solution and being a support system when all else has seemed to fail are the things that we do best to make a difference.
Mr. Blair said European officials must put the full weight of the region's monetary system behind the effort or else it could fail.
The message is clear: the government believes that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are simply too vital to the U.S. financial system and mortgage industry to allow them to fail.
Under the current, opt-in system, there are many more people who fail to sign the donor register and fail to inform their family of their wishes, even though they would wish to help others with the gift of their organs, and these people's organs may go pointlessly to waste without their consent.
Mr Grant said self-regulation was a system which has "proven again and again to fail".
Cushioned by the remarkable achievements of modern medicine, we often fail to appreciate how fragile our healthcare system can be, and the knock-on threat these risks in conjunction could pose to connected social and economic systems.
When Nintendo released its now-popular handheld DS portable gaming system in 2004, lots of early reviews predicted it would fail.
Too often, systems for information analysis and process automation fail because they are not designed as a whole system with people and machines working in harmony.
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It is necessary that the EU introduce a budget discipline system that involves the possible imposition of sanctions on countries that fail to adhere to the rules.
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The idea that banks can grow too big to fail is seen by many as a danger to the system.
If the systems removing the heat from the reactors(even during shut down) fail, you will have a failure of the entire system.
The premise underpinning its justice system is that it is far worse to convict wrongly than to fail to convict at all.
Efforts to keep them around through some kind of regulatory coercion tend to either fail, or else impose massive costs elsewhere in the system.
This law has now been in place for about five years, but a federal investigation last July, in addition to the in-depth study from the Mayors Against Illegal Guns, found the vast majority of states fail to pass on mental health records to the federal system.
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