Those that only pay attention to the immediate short-term results are the ones that miss-out on the longer-term, more sustainable opportunities.
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Conversely, when you drop catches, miss run-out opportunities, do not capitalise on good starts with the bat and then take only five wickets in an innings you cannot expect to be the team drinking champagne afterwards.
The worst-placed of the nine group runners-up will miss out on the South Africa 2010 shoot-out in November and Scotland and their rivals for the runners-up spot in Group Nine are in danger of doing just that.
Japan controversially missed out to New Zealand for the right to host the 2011 edition, with South Africa - the other country to miss out then - another possible 2015 bidder.
Miss Starlin out-played General Aideed and about 150 of his fighters were demobilised, she says.
Hodgson gave the Sharks a three-point lead with a penalty from the first scrum before Leeds hit back with a try inside five minutes from centre Fa'afili, following a miss-throw at the line-out.
The 22-year-old Flood, who will provide England with another goal-kicking option, was unlucky to miss out on the original 30-man World Cup squad.
Isa Guha, Caroline Atkins and Ebony Rainford-Brent miss out after being part of the squad which won last year's inaugural tournament.
But along with Brad Williams - thought unlucky by some to miss out as Gillespie's replacement - and Ashley Noffke, he is in the vanguard of Australia's next generation of seam bowlers.
The match looked to have slipped away from the Premiership side when Johne Murphy was the first to miss in the shoot-out but James could not convert the opportunity and, after Martyn Williams also missed from the 22, Crane stepped up to be the match-winner.
However, Wiranto, another singing ex-general, was still in with a chance of edging Miss Megawati out of the run-off vote, with 22%.
The eighth-seeded Kansas State Wildcats beat the ninth-seeded Southern Miss Golden Eagles 70-64, knocking them out of the tournament.
It's also capable of working out if you've shared your sounds with a friend and will push out a mono mix to both headphones -- so neither of you miss out on the other half.
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Deputy Flouquet, also the Minister for Public Services, was one of three sitting deputies to miss out on re-election in the district.
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James sustained the injury in the 15-14 win at Newcastle and will now miss out on Bath's push for the play-offs.
After starting the season with a 10-point deduction, Saints battled back to miss out on a place in the League One play-offs by just seven points.
The uncapped pair of flanker Heinrich Brussow and Golden Lions fly-half Earl Rose miss out all together.
Charlie Lee will play at right-back should Zakuani miss out having shaken off a knock, whilst Krystian Pearce is a further option.
Karlsson had rounds of 73 and 74 to miss out on the play-off by seven shots while Broadhurst was only one stroke better off.
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The Bluebirds took just one point from the last 12 on offer last season to unbelievably miss out on the play-offs by a single point.
However, it's highly unlikely that the Slovenians will slip up against the minnows and Northern Ireland now look set to miss out on a play-off spot.
In any case, companies that rely on blanket prohibitions to cut off access will miss out on important employee-driven initiatives that innovative cloud services make possible.
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But not so the all-out attack that Miss Megawati has sent the armed forces to launch against separatists in the devoutly Muslim province of Aceh, with the aim of wiping out the rebels' Free Aceh Movement (GAM).
The game had a scrappy nature to it as South Africa's forwards kept plugging away and although Smit was driven over from a 35th minute line-out, Montgomery's third successive miss meant Fiji were still in contention, trailing 13-3 at half-time.
So I decided I had to check this out for myself -- because, honestly -- first of all, who wants to miss out a chance to see the crane? (Laughter.) That thing is huge.
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"Ole Miss Girls Are Easier Than Their Out-Of-Conference Schedule, " reads the sign, a reference to the first two games on the Rebels' schedule.
This certainly is a big problem for Oracle, which has been slow to adopt next-generation technologies and could miss out on an enormous growth opportunity.
If the Frenchman's first-choice midfield five of Samir Nasri, Cesc Fabregas, Alexandre Song, Abou Diaby, and Andrey Arshavin are all fit, will one of them miss out to accommodate an in-form Wilshere?
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