So many entrepreneurs spend all of their time trying to avoid failure that they don't advance their fields.
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Over time, failure to make such investments slowly degrades our competitiveness, leaving us without the skilled workforce or the technologies or the basic infrastructure that a 21st century economy requires.
The leverage that it took on, which was 40 to 1 at the time of its failure, became too much for the firm to handle.
There will be separate reports from Lord Sutherland - to Ofqual on the failure to deliver results on time and to Schools Secretary Ed Balls on the role of the National Assessment Agency and the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority.
Our research also indicated that 2000-2003 seems to be a time when failure fatigue had set in.
Exxon's "failure over an extended period of time to recognize those threats ... was a major cause of the failure, " Transportation officials said in Monday's notice.
Being ignored is minor compared to the hostility and emotional abuse many other stepmothers experience, but my sense of failure grew each time I tried to grow closer to my stepdaughter and was rebuffed.
Yet, at the same time, the failure of minorities to get far up the social ladder shows the limits of the French model.
While the private sector assumes responsibility for capital costs and the risks involved such as cost and time overruns in construction or failure to deliver an agreed level of service, the local authority in return commits to regular payments.
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Once again, I apologize to you on behalf Of IMF (International Monetary Fund) for failure to pay your funds on time, which according to records in the system had been long overdue.
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Taking the time to reduce everything to basic principles can make all the difference between success and failure.
Failure to spend adequate time analyzing the risks associated with an emerging manager before investment could undermine the potenial for returns after the investment.
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Speaking earlier to BBC News, Mr Osborne said a solution to the eurozone debt crisis must be found by the time the Group of 20 nations meet next month and failure to do so would be "terrible not just for Britain, not just for Europe, but for the entire world economy".
Failure to pay within that time will result in a five-year sentence of probation.
Mr Usher said there had been a "collective failure in the administration over time to respond effectively to issues that were clearly there".
He does not recommend training to failure or maximum intensity every time you work out, as this will lead to overtraining, which could lead to injury and fatigue.
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"The combination of a wholly unrealistic time frame for responses along with a failure to seek an independent and comprehensive market impact assessment from Ofcom demonstrates disregard for the principles of good regulation, " he added.
Former President Bill Clinton, for example, told audiences that the reason Democrats faired so poorly in the 1994 off-year elections, when Republicans took over the House and Senate for the first time in 40 years, was his failure to pass ClintonCare.
Resolution 1441, which we lingered over so long last fall, clearly states that false statements and omissions in the declaration and a failure by Iraq at any time to comply with and cooperate fully in the implementation of this resolution shall constitute -- the facts speak for themselves --shall constitute a further material breach of its obligation.
Plaid condemn a "bland budget", claim the Chancellor's move to spend more on infrastructure is "a political admission of failure" and - at the same time - nowhere near enough to achieve its aim of triggering growth.
He has accepted that the time taken to clear the mess caused by the computer failure had been "unacceptable".
She could also borrow bridge financing from the Treasury to cover for the time lapse between a bank failure and the sale of its assets.
At the same time, the Labour Party exploited the Conservative failure to address crime effectively and positioned itself as the party which was best able to tackle this problem.
That's how much a Florida jury awarded financier and Revlon chairman Ronald Perelman last month after the judge, enraged by Morgan's repeated failure to produce electronic evidence on time, ordered jurors to assume Morgan had helped defraud Perelman in client Sunbeam Corp.
When the iPhone 4S launched, early adopters may remember the near-universal failure of the internet when it came time to place a pre-order.
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Whether your business is an unprecedented success or a devastating failure, your time with it is limited to, at most, your own life span.
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If, as we hear all the time from leadership gurus, it is important to learn from failure, then this bunch has a ton to teach us.
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Across Europe and in America, changes in banking law are being put in place which will make it easier to force bank creditors to share the pain of a failure next time.
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