As the administration debates all this, and there is disagreement within the Bush team, the president yesterday in a speech here in Washington said the bottom line in his view was this, that the United States could not fail the test in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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And products that fail the green test could remain in warehouses or languishing on store shelves.

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If he was in my class, he would fail the test.

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Trials often fail because of a hasty rush to test drugs in the biggest possible patient group.

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Simon Schama interviews Bill Clinton in the Financial Times and oh boy, does Bill fail the green jobs test.

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So if this is the case, why did EPA fail to warn their test subjects that the substances they would be exposed to in high doses were so dangerous?

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But by investing in the Fast Fail quadrant at the same time, your teams will learn how to quickly test ideas and develop the entrepreneurial mindset that you need to keep your teams from ruining good with perfect.

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According to data in a recent government report, even courses offered by many of the leading colleges would fail the gainful-employment test as currently proposed.

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