Mohammad Akhter,Executive Director of the National Medical Association, said reform is needed to deal with an explosion of chronic disease in the United States, adding that failure to pass a bill now would mean more expense for the country later.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

And it would create a group to identify and regulate companies that are so big, their failure could threaten the economy.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

A main concern is that the failure of some banks or governments to pay their debts could send a financial shock across many countries.

VOA: special.2009.03.06

She writes that academic cheating is a result of communication failure between students and professors.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

"Rather than a failure to collect or share intelligence," he said, "this was a failure to connect and understand the intelligence that we already had."

VOA: special.2010.01.09

She could not help see that many of his experiments had ended in failure.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

And one day after Lehman's failure, the government decided that the huge insurer A.I.G.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

"Now I say to you gentlemen that this college is a failure.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

For many years before that,however, he had been considered a failure.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

The feeling grew that Grant was a failure.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

Nye agrees with Mr.Klaus that the primary causes of the Soviet collapse were economic failure and the decline of communist ideology.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

He says he wants to ensure that the failure of a single, large financial firm would not threaten the entire economy.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

"I believe this war to be a tragic failure that continues to undermine rather than advance our national security interests."

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

Gomez explains that many Latino immigrant families see mental illness as a moral failure, a problem to be hidden.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22