UBS, it seems, has among other mishaps come a cropper on the hoariest of subjects: trading derivatives.

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Some of the outsiders that have bought firms in Silicon Valley come a cropper because they try to import their own hierarchies.

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With only two months to go before the ethereal version arrives, firms that are not yet ready and even many that think they are may come a cropper long before then.

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More dramatically, Italy might have come a cropper too.

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And then the studies come a cropper.

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Direct democracy can come a cropper.

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Given the testing conditions at the West Sussex course (several horses had already come a cropper around the famously tight right-hand bend), this was never going to be a procession on the scale of the 11-length drubbing Frankel handed out at Royal Ascot back in June.

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When out-of-towners come a-cropper in Scores, most New Yorkers adopt a position of amused superiority.

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