Zimbabwe also highlights the problem of how to deal with a country which is regarded as a rogue or failing state.
On January 6th Professor Michael Barber, its special adviser on education, announced that private firms would be invited to run failing state schools.
Yar'Adua unfortunately will not have that luxury and will have to address this issue directly if he wants to start establishing peace and security in his failing state.
Failing state-owned enterprises will be privatised for nominal sums.
And now the entire region is threatened because of radical extremists who have taken root in Somalia, taking advantage of what they perceive to be a failing state, to use that as a base to launch attacks, most recently in Uganda.
Mr. Holder was, again, non-committal in his response, acknowledging that using drones against citizens here in America would not be the policy of the administration but failing to state that such a policy would, under all circumstances, be unconstitutional.
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Consob, Italy's stockmarket regulator, ruled that Banca Popolare di Lodi acted improperly by failing to state it was working with other parties in building a controlling stake in Banca Antonveneta , a larger Italian rival that it wants to buy.
Coroner of Inquests John Needham said the state was failing to protect road users by not restricting their speed on some routes.
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Since the governor's tax plans for teachers were unveiled last month, the state's school system has been placed under scrutiny after a civil rights' group filed a lawsuit claiming that the state was failing to provide the basic provisions of education.
Baldwin admitted failing to pay New York State income taxes for 2008, 2009 and 2010.
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Brandeis was already on an official state list of failing schools and will shut down in 2012.
In Rockland County Court, Mr Baldwin admitted failing to pay New York state income taxes for 2008, 2009 and 2010.
With the civilian Defense Science Board leading the way, the Pentagon moved quickly to pitch in where the State Department was failing.
The declaration stated that Sudan should be a secular state or, failing this, that the south should be able to exercise the right of self-determination.
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In 1993 he pled guilty to a separate count of failing to file a New York state income tax return -- a misdemeanor.
Separately, a class action filed the same month by California clients of Salomon's Atlanta office charged the firm with violating California penal code for failing to warn residents of that state that they were being taped.
The New York City lawyer who helped win a landmark court ruling in 2006 that ordered billions of dollars more spent on schools has been quietly building a new case to show that even after more than a decade of litigation, the state still may be failing its most impoverished students.
In addition, two Penn State officials are charged with failing to inform police of the allegations, and questions have been raised about the university's response.
Regardless of the structural, administrative and disciplinary failures at Penn State, the central moral failing was that the school cared more about its reputation, its football team, and even Sandusky than about his victims.
As a side-show, a tone-deaf trade association of struggling European telephone companies known as ETNO put on a full-court press to dupe developing nations into endorsing a plan that would subsidize failing local telcos, many of them state-owned, by taxing the most popular Internet content providers, including YouTube, Facebook, and Yahoo!
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Failing this, he will push for the state to raise the cap on charters.
The PLO issued a statement after the meeting criticizing Netanyahu for failing to more explicitly endorse a two-state solution.
State or city takeovers of "failing schools" are also becoming increasingly common.
In addition, two Penn State administrators are awaiting trial for failing to report the suspected abuse and lying to a grand jury.
This was a response to concerns that the clause might prevent the secretary of state from intervening when bodies were failing except in rare circumstances.
Actor Stephen Baldwin was arrested this week in New York City on charges of failing to pay personal income tax to the State of New York for 2008, 2009 and 2010.
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The federal government has also served to distract our IT security teams as numerous bills have required an onerous documentation and reporting regime to comply with Sarbanes Oxley and HIPAA, while failing to pass legislation that addresses the morass of state breach disclosure laws we have to comply with.
The BBC's Andrew Walker points out that the more common approach to failing banks in the current crisis has been for the state to inject new capital.
Newt Gingrich, one of the leading US Republican presidential candidates, has said Virginia's electoral system is flawed, after failing to qualify for the primary ballot in his home state.
These will be encouraged to take over failing schools and then to run them under contract to the state.
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