Yet the record will prove that active management is a catastrophic failure to achieve that goal.
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In contrast, focus on success often encourages complacency which leads to profound and catastrophic failure.
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"While we have some issues here, this is not a horrific, catastrophic failure at Walter Reed, " Kiley said.
Those all happened in the past four years. 2008 was a catastrophic failure.
Last month, Dr Andy Williams, of Cardiff University, said the UK media was guilty of "catastrophic failure" over its coverage.
Parish councillor Peter Byham feared there could be a "catastrophic failure" to the quay if work did not start soon.
On the other hand, coal and natural gas plants do not hold the same potential for a single catastrophic failure event.
However, Daly said that it would take extremely violent weather conditions to cause the catastrophic failure of an aircraft of this size.
Shadow chancellor George Osborne blamed the government for what he called a "catastrophic failure of bank regulation", contributing to the "longest and deepest recession" since the 1930s.
About half the rockets suffer some kind of catastrophic failure in the air, usually when a nose cone fails to separate properly or the parachute doesn't deploy.
What they totally lacked was creativity in developing new financial systems that enhanced the status quo at the time and prevented the catastrophic failure of global monetary system.
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His book, Catastrophic Failure, will be released in late 2012.
Coming so soon after Seattle, any meeting would need to be a stunning success to avoid being judged a catastrophic failure, and would also run the risk of a repeat of Seattle-style chaos.
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Summing up at the inquest Mr Ridley said the front brake suffered a "complete catastrophic failure" due to the pinch bolt "more likely than not being sufficiently tight" and causing the cantilever not to function at all.
Their conclusions: The "hurricane protection system" built by the Corps had serious design and construction flaws, baked into the system over 40 years under administrations of both parties, that caused catastrophic failure in more than 50 locations under storm surge conditions markedly less than the system was advertised to withstand.
This kind of overconfidence can lead to disasters, such as with the Chernobyl disaster (the Ukrainian Minister of Power stated the odds of a meltdown were 1 in 10, 000 just two months before the meltdown), the Challenger (NASA estimated the odds of catastrophic failure as 1 in 100, 000), or Pearl Harbor (the American military believed that Pearl Harbor was virtually immune to attack).
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Among the claims, Democrats Henry Waxman of California and Bart Stupak of Michigan sent a letter in June to then-BP chief executive Tony Hayward claiming the oil company had made multiple decisions because of economic reasons that "increased the danger of a catastrophic well failure".
First, establish if a firm is so large or so entangled within the financial system that its unexpected failure could be catastrophic.
Our nation deserves better choices than, on one hand, accepting the catastrophic damage caused by a failure like Lehman Brothers, or on the other hand being forced to pour billions of taxpayer dollars into an institution like AIG to protect the economy against that scale of damage.
No one of achievement has avoided failure -- sometimes catastrophic failures.
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In fact, the two biggest economic disasters of the 20th century--the Great Depression in the 1930s and the Great Inflation of the 1970s--were both the result of catastrophic government mistakes, not a sudden failure of free-market capitalism.
Whatever the demands of domestic politics, however, both sides know that failure to avert war would be catastrophic.
If we are talking about a hazardous environment such as a nuclear power plant, the damage caused by a single, un-networked sensor could be catastrophic, for two reasons: first the sensor failure itself could be the problem.
The likely reason for that failure is that while the models recognize that increased CO2 itself will not produce a big, catastrophic increase in global temperatures, the models assume that the very small amount of warming caused by increased CO2 will result in much larger temperature increases caused by positive feedbacks.
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