On Thursday President Obama blamed the incident on what he called a "systemic failure across organizations and agencies."

VOA: special.2010.01.09

Failure to put senators on the negotiating team,they say, cost him valuable support later on.

VOA: special.2010.11.04

Michael Jackson died on June twenty-fifth, two thousand nine of heart failure.

VOA: special.2009.07.05

But no such mechanism exists for non-bank financial institutions like AIG whose failure would inflict great economic pain on the nation as a whole.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

"The American taxpayers provided billions of dollars,and ultimately, the auto dealers are on the frontlines with the harsh consequences of the failure at the top,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

It speaks I would say for failure on the part of intelligence agencies."

VOA: standard.2010.01.09