There was an Epic Fail of a Sony press event that included the first ever launch of a 4K OLED TV, featuring an impressive demonstration of the Blue Screen of Death.
Was the principle of too big to fail part of the reason for the financial crisis?
The difference between China and other countries may lie not so much in a higher rate of attempted suicide, but in a lower rate of attempted suicides that fail because of remedial action.
Using capital as a means of ensuring that banks do not fail will be a self-fulfilling prophesy that will only guarantee a land made up of Too-Big-To-Fail giants ( Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, Wells Fargo, etc.), and will eliminate any creativity in the financial sector.
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The new taoiseach, the son of a Fianna Fail TD, made Mary Coughlan, the daughter and niece of Fianna Fail TDs, his tanaiste or deputy prime minister.
The main reason that those out-of-towners fail is lack of differentiation.
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It may be true that many start-ups fail because of bad management rather than bad ideas.
The 15-question multiple-choice graduation test does not seem designed to fail many of the candidates.
Trials often fail because of a hasty rush to test drugs in the biggest possible patient group.
Prof Blom conceded that "all hips fail" so some would fail regardless of whether they were metal-on-metal or combination.
Pay deals are breaching the incomes policy agreed between the Fianna Fail government of Bertie Ahern and the trade unions.
Is the government going to require banks to write down loans made to businesses that fail because of reasons that seem unfair?
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Senate Democratic leaders have scheduled a vote on it in two weeks, though it is expected to fail because of Republican opposition.
Gordon Brown has reiterated that this will not fail because of money.
Many promising pills fail because of nasty side-effects in a few patients.
"If Romania and Bulgaria insist on a vote, the attempt will fail because of a German veto, " German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich said.
Even hair transplants can fail because of the damage, he says.
Nasa has reacted angrily to the allegation that it knew the Mars Polar Lander (MPL) mission would fail because of a design flaw in the craft's braking thrusters.
We may fail, of course, but we are going to do our damnedest to succeed, even if all the forces of the rich and the powerful are aligned against us.
Did the study fail because of niacin or laropiprant?
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Many have tried to tap overseas markets only to fail because of the cultural differences, government red tape (on both sides), and shipping logistics, just to name a few of the challenges.
Previous ISAF commanders, including General McKiernan, also issued promising directives, only to fail because of too few resources and too little understanding in their forces, and too little support from the Afghan government.
And we showed in very graphic terms how the water would top the levees and inundate the city, the way in which the pumps would fail because of the loss of power, and how the inundation would stay in the city because of its geography and geology.
That is held to result when the market suffers from inadequate or inaccurate information delivery, inadequate or insufficient competition, principal-agent problems (where agents fail to represent the interests of their principals), and externalities (where market actors fail to bear the costs of their actions or choices), among other problems.
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It said retailers in Northern Ireland "are more likely to be operating at low levels of volume that fail to exploit economies of scale".
The traditional New York publishing business model publish a ton of books, fail to market most of them, and hope that somebody buys something worked well when publishers had a hammerlock on the distribution and marketing of books.
Government-controlled Ally Financial, the rescued former finance arm of General Motors, was the only bank to fail the test of capital strength.
Leaders who fail to take advantage of the talent, knowledge, and wisdom of their team will fail to realize their potential as a leader.
My guess is that nationally, a majority of Pell Grants recipients fail to graduate within six years of entering college, and probably roughly two-thirds fail to graduate within four years.
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