Even more telling is when health system failures spark sardonic commentary.
The novelty of events like this becomes glaringly obvious with all the system failures - and backstage and on-stage mayhem that drew a few laughs.
Inflationary price shocks, layoffs, bond defaults and bank system failures ensue.
The goal is to create "intelligent" computers that can handle simple tasks, such as correcting system failures and warding off attacks from hackers, without human intervention.
For example, in large hotels, voltage dips and power interruptions of less than a second can result in booking and reservation system failures, which are extremely expensive.
The widower said it had been very difficult sitting through the testimonies of medics, including Dr Astbury, who admitted there were system failures in his late wife's care.
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It is true that a spontaneous occurrence of the multiple system failures necessary to cause a severe accident and large radiological release is typically a very improbable event.
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Given the current risks of disasters, the growing threat to water systems from climatic changes, and the high stakes of water-system failures, innovative emergency response plans should be aggressively pursued.
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Khan's barrister, Simon Drew, said police investigations into the various incidents often "came to nothing" because of "generous failures by the system".
Its newer cousins on the E line in Manhattan and Queens averaged more than 1.6 million miles between failures, the system's best mark.
Thus, the failures spanned the electrical system, cooling system and control and instrumentation systems at the plants.
In any case, it overburdened the system, causing a cascade of failures.
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Eventually, Jack Straw said if Labour were elected they would hold an inquiry into the failures of the justice system to apprehend Stephen's killers.
The fact is, the economic crisis of the past two years -- indeed the growing economic insecurity of the middle class that's been going for a decade -- was born not just of failures in our economic system.
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The experiences of the reponses to Hurricane Katrina and 9-11 show what can happen when there are massive failures of communications between military and civilian authorities and agencies: hardware failures, incompatibility, system overload, interference, and other factors that vastly complicated a coordinated response.
Failures in a new appointment system could have delayed treatment for cancer patients at a troubled health trust, according to a health watchdog.
"It is not unusual for the commissioner to pay damages and apologise in cases where failures in the police complaints system nevertheless allow the officers involved to keep their jobs, " he said.
Carping about or in some cases ignoring the failures of the current IVF system, seems the preferred choice for those opposed to even debating the benefits and challenges of a for-profit embryo market.
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The banking system was shaky throughout the 1920s, and failures escalated steadily after 1929.
We are learning more each day about the multiple failures in our security and intelligence system that preceded that attack.
Global leadership further takes the development of a regime that protects property rights, and develops a fair and transparent tax system that amasses sufficient resources to address market failures.
He added that the measures were only likely to be useful in a minority of cases, with broader improvements across the whole criminal justice system also needed "to tackle the recognised failures in the investigation and prosecution of rape cases".
But unicameralists are hard-pressed to cite specific failures of the bicameral, conference committee system.
Making this system more accessible by passing costs to taxpayers will simply spread its failures more broadly.
Concerns about liquidity in the banking system have raised the possibility that there will be an increase in bank failures in the next year or so.
"We have a different system here in Wales and we haven't seen a catalogue of failures on the scale that we've had in England, " Ms Rochira told BBC Radio Wales.
As much as government regulators failed in preventing the collapse of financial institutions in 2008, especially the two biggest failures being Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a global banking system regulated by 20 governments has no potential for success, making it inevitable that there will be more failing banks in the future.
The minister criticised the media, saying they focussed on the failures of the NHS, rather than on those who abuse the system.
The U.S. Coast Guard said the ship's CO2 firefighting system had failed to operate correctly due to leaks, poor maintenance and component failures.
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