The history of innovation, of course, is littered with failures.
It is a case, however, that reminds board members and shareholders everywhere about the pitfalls that come with failures to properly supervise and regulate any entity in which they have a vested interest.
In 2009 the FDIC picked up the pace with 140 bank failures, with a peak of 50 in the third quarter of 2009.
And telecoms firms, hospitals and businesses usually have contingency plans to deal with power failures or flooding.
For all the money floating around, even the powerful Gates Foundation has met with more failures than successes.
On September 3rd, the three opposition parties unveiled their own package of bills for dealing with bank failures.
But there are rules that can make it easier to cope with the failures of such brittle technologies.
If we do not, the economy could slow as many companies will divert resources to cope with computer failures.
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But team-mate Tom Parsons was not smiling, however, the 26-year-old from Birmingham crashing out with three failures at the opening height.
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Meanwhile, with bank failures on the horizon and the ECB frozen in its trakcs, the real economy is beginning to feel the pinch.
Aviation authorities worldwide have ordered airlines to stop flying their Dreamliners because of the fire risk associated with battery failures aboard the highly touted aircraft.
They have come to peace with their failures, setbacks and mistakes.
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The company claims that because of poor planning combined with multiple failures, the Corps of Engineers didn't create enough storage capacity for water even when very heavy rainfall was predicted.
Talk about a field littered with ignominious failures.
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That, along with crop failures in Russia and, more recently, the UK, has helped to turn prices that once served as ceilings into floors for commodities like wheat and corn in the last two years.
Then we will see a repeat of what happened with the deregulated airline industry with business failures, acquisitions, and mergers until we get back down to the number of networks that can survive and thrive in a free market.
Anyone quick to dismiss this potential problem need only think back on our humbling recent experiences with ICD failures to recognize that the late manifestation of an unanticipated failure mechanism is a fact of reality in cardiac rhythm devices.
While I am certain there are a few examples of a successful transaction, with just a little research anyone can spot numerous failures with this practice with some shady characters pushing the stocks.
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Like Carter before him, Obama may succeed for a time in evading public scrutiny for his foreign-policy failures because the public will be too concerned with his domestic failures to notice them.
Man-of-the-match Malone replied with a penalty for the English visitors, before Stephen Jones atoned for his two conversion failures with a brace of penalties for the Scarlets.
Chambers, despite his failures with products like Flip, has been trying to do something different.
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Both sides should walk away from the discussion with the visible failures of their ideas well in mind.
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After repeated failures with fancy, boldface signings, this is a low-profile team purposefully constructed to be a team.
It comes with plenty of setbacks and it comes with plenty of failures.
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With 242 bank failures since the end of 2007 and my prediction that 500 to 800 will fail by early 2013, community banks need help.
The catch, of course, is that Intel could have a lot tougher time extracting itself from these new efforts than it has with its previous failures.
With 108 bank failures so far in 2010 my prediction that the FDIC would close 150 to 200 banks this year seems like a slam dunk.
The FDIC list of Problem Banks jumped to 829 from 775 with 45 bank failures in the second quarter up from 41 in the first quarter.
Universities seem to embrace the successful graduates, so why not also own some of the failures with a goal of deterring current students from making the same mistakes?
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