History is replete with examples of the inevitable failure of paper money systems, from our own founding days, to inter-war Germany, to the monetary crisis of 1970s Latin America.

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Beckett's plays, with their theme of constant striving against the odds, their inevitable failure but determined continuing towards some sort of truth, fitted exactly with Arikha's notions of his art.

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Hollywood studios are slow on the uptake with such services, which may lead to their inevitable ultimate failure by making movie piracy even more of a habit than it is already.

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Eventually, the effort to maintain historical consistency simply allows competitors to completely steal the business away with new products, creating a big revenue drop, or producing such low returns that failure is inevitable.

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Perhaps the decline of Reader's Digest's fortunes was inevitable with the longer-term social and political influences of 60s counterculture, the failure of general interest magazines, the rise of global media targeted at specific niches and the advent of the internet.

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