Two days before they were set to ship, HSN's inspectors discovered that the gift set broke apart when dropped from waist height, failing the network's drop test.
The tablet never fell to the floor, though the company did perform a separate drop test inside a controlled chamber, in which the Surface continued to record video even after plummeting three feet.
Morgan Chase told The Wall Street Journal that its Chase retail unit had decided to drop its test of debit-card fees.
This meant that for the drop-test we were able to let the Panasonic free-fall from a height of three feet, while the GammaTech was dropped from a somewhat less realistic (in terms of likely real-world falls) one foot.
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It replicates a smaller-scale test drop tried on Naval Base Guam in 2010, he said.
Although the dollar could still drop down and test its 2008 low, the probabilities of that are now diminishing.
"The way they are playing at the moment you are in danger of being torn apart, " said Wilkinson, who became the world's all-time leading Test drop-goal scorer with 29.
New York City and state officials have long warned that test scores likely would drop as the state switched to a test based on new standards that force students to think more critically.
Those who test negative for a serious and costly disease may drop coverage, while those who test positive may add or increase coverage.
The current test includes verbal and non-verbal reasoning, which are not taught in primary schools and need coaching but the new test may drop that element and place the emphasis on English and Maths, which are taught in classrooms, BBC South East Today's political correspondent John Young explained.
Those elevated levels of radiocarbon were tracked carefully, and they began to drop off quickly after a test ban treaty was signed in 1963.
The Minnesota health center says it was forced to drop a potentially valuable diagnostic test and delay publication of an article after Prometheus sued it for violating a patent so sweeping that it prohibits researchers from even thinking about the process Prometheus claims to have invented.
This is aimed at reversing the drop in numbers of riders taking the test, which was caused by a move in 2009 to replace local centres with a smaller number of test "super-centres" where off-road manoeuvres could also be assessed.
Dan Biggar, Martin Roberts, Morgan Stoddart and Eifion Roberts drop out of the squad from the autumn Test series.
With economies facing a deep recession, inflation is set to drop sharply (though the benchmark for the test is falling too).
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If pressure bleeds off there is clearly a problem with the pressure integrity of the shoe, However, industry practice dictates that a positive test, that is no pressure drop, is not diagnostic, simply because the reservoir pressure is sufficient to retain the pressure being applied.
Alongside Marcus Trescothick, he must be the right choice for now to open for his country, allowing Michael Vaughan to drop down the order as he has done in Test matches.
Last month, New York, Montana and New Hampshire announced they were switching to a new high school equivalency exam, and California officials began looking into amending regulations to drop the requirement that the state only use the GED test.
As of the last test, the antennas could survive a 5-foot drop, open.
The New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk policy, widely credited as an important factor in the citywide drop in crime during the Bloomberg administration, will face its biggest constitutional test in a federal trial beginning Monday.
Amex passed the test, which among other things assumed a dramatic 50% drop in equity markets and 21% decline in home prices, with a 10.8% capital ratio, meaning it is well capitalized to weather an economic storm.
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The top 10% of English secondary pupils also drop behind those in Australia, Scotland Slovenia and Norway, analysis of international test scores indicates.
In a selfless act, Hussain decided to drop himself a place in order to give Vaughan the vital number three slot for the first Test of the 2001 summer against Pakistan.
During his demo, Podrebarac reportedly fumbled one of the test vials, prompting the amused crowd to call out: "Don't drop it!"
The 2003 World Cup winner has featured for England in every Test in the past 12 months, but has been plagued by injuries since slotting the drop-goal to beat Australia in the final seven years ago.
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