The current economic downturn grew out of a culture of irresponsible lending and borrowing and "a failure of the entire system,"

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But isn't the failure of such models to blame for the current financial crisis?

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The Communication Workers Union, which has campaigned to raise awareness of dog attacks on postal workers and telecom engineers, welcomed the report as a "strong and clear in its assessment of the failure of current laws".

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It was the utter failure of that incarnation of Current that prompted Gore and co-founder Joel Hyatt to put the thing up for sale.

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