The failure test described above involves so much force that a special footing needed to be constructed, involving 90 tons of rebar, and 1650 cubic yards of concrete (involving continuous pour from 165 trucks).
With those risks, inevitably, goes the chance of failure in the test program and the need to adapt designs, build work-arounds and make modifications to subsequent production articles.
What may offer the England team some encouragement ahead of Thursday's final Test was the collective failure of three of India's Test batsman.
Rumours in F1 suggest the crash test failure could delay the debut of the car further until the Italian Grand Prix at Monza in September.
At the time, U.S. officials and independent experts considered the test somewhat of a failure.
With the help of four other hospitals in Australia, the researchers plan to test the device in 30 heart failure patients awaiting a heart transplant.
Russian parliament member Alexei Arbatov said the test's failure didn't add up to much, but warned against the political consequences of proceeding with the program.
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Most of the technical issues covered in the report, such as the failure of a crucial cement seal and the misinterpretation of a key pressure test, have been raised by other investigations.
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The case was a challenge to a firefighter test that had a wide range of difference between the pass and failure rate of different groups.
Interesting to learn in retrospect that the real ethical breach surrounding the first test tube baby was a good old fashioned failure to achieve informed consent.
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Lord Warner said that "where there is clear provider failure...it seems sensible to test the market to find the best set of arrangements for replacing the failed incumbent".
The test of a great leader, though, is how that failure is handled.
Other issues she will have to deal with include the implementation of the teachers' workload agreement for England and Wales, the growth of specialist schools and city academies, plans for optional extended school hours - and the government's repeated failure to meet its targets for England's test and exam performance.
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After the game, Law backed Flintoff's inclusion in the England squad for next week's first Test against New Zealand - despite his failure to score in either innings against Durham.
The company sees this as an over-the-counter disposable cartridge that can test for pregnancy complications, preeclampisa, gestational diabetes, kidney failure and urinary tract infections.
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In essence, I believe this was not a failure of the drug or the mechanism but a failure of us as investigators to make sure we had sufficient disease in our population upon which to test our hypothesis--somewhat akin to trying to show one antibiotic is better than another or even a placebo, but selecting a population with no infection!
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