But the price of system failure, just like that of inadequate maintenance, would be even more enormous.
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Hania said, however, it is more likely that a network error or system failure caused the problem.
It means some computers could interpret '00' as 1900 instead of 2000, causing system failure or unpredictable behaviour.
Officials discovered the system failure after an alarm sounded at reactor number three.
Carnival said the ship's emergency diesel generator failed, but the cruise line disputed notions of a widespread system failure.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said the crew carried out the controlled ditching due to a system failure warning.
Bristol was described as a "system failure", both in the inquiry report and by Health Secretary Alan Milburn on the day of its release.
In both cases a cooling system failure caused the reactors to overheat.
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That sort of financial system failure is what worries Shilling, who notes that U.S. exposure to European import demand is actually fairly limited.
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"Once we survive that, it's just a steady threat of radiation, meteorite impacts, and vehicle system failure like fire or ammonia breakthrough, " he posted.
This death and injury to children is a 'whole system failure'.
Damage to the grid: Power surges and electrical system failure due to high loads can cause power outages and damage to BC Hydro equipment and infrastructure, including the premature failure of distribution transformers.
"We certainly regret that the system failure affected tonight's event, we apologize to the racers whose cars were damaged, and our immediate concern is for the race fans, " Fox said in the statement.
Obama would have America accept increased regulation because, in an equality of opportunity society, if individuals do not get a good outcome, it is a failure of the system, a market failure.
The second objective is to deal with the problem under the current system of ineligibility based on failure to pay into the system, i.e.
The review found problems with the processing system and a failure to provide information to students.
But that system's failure casts a dark shadow on the news business that has not entirely lifted.
Mr Blustein shows how improvised those efforts were and how close the financial system came to failure.
Because banks provide credit and operate the payments system, their failure can have a more damaging effect on the economy than the collapse of other businesses.
We do so because a stable and reliable banking system promotes sustained growth, and because we learned how dangerous the failure of that system can be during the Great Depression.
The world banking system is inherently fragile because the failure of one bank leads to contagion that can cause the failure of other banks and of the system itself.
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First, establish if a firm is so large or so entangled within the financial system that its unexpected failure could be catastrophic.
Until recently the system has never acknowledged failure.
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And while our review has found that our watch-listing system is not broken, the failure to add Abdulmutallab to the "no fly" list shows that this system needs to be strengthened.
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The whole system is built to allow failure to occur anywhere with minimal impact.
The failure of our system of medical care for people facing the end of their life runs much deeper.
What parts of the system can respond automatically to failure, what parts can respond nearly automatically, and which not at all?
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The FDA said today that it had granted approval to the HeartWare Ventricular Assist System for use in heart failure patients waiting for a transplant.
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The delivery service, part of the Royal Mail Group, apologised for the failure in the system which allowed people using the mail tracing service access to the name, postcode and signature at various addresses.
The importance of failure to an antifragile system is a recurring theme to the book.
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