1.   If states failed to set or enforce standards, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare could intervene.

2.   The state had failed to prove its case.

3.   The state has failed to deal with the problem of violence against women.

4.   Also, storms moving through Plains states have failed to generate as much rain for newly planted crops as had been expected, traders said.

5.   As the legislature opened its session Friday, it adopted a proclamation expressing its concern that the state will fail to finalize its slate of electors.

6.   At the jail, the transporting officer told Meredith-Jones he was there because Washington state failed to participate in the compact.

7.   At the same time, the state failed to enter some inspection results into the HCFA data system for two years.

8.   Also, storms moving through the Plains states have failed to generate as much rain for newly planted crops as had been expected, traders said.

9.   But at least six children died after relatives handed them back to dangerous parents and the state failed to follow up, records show.

10.   But drugs work only when taken, and many states failed to build a promised network of clinics to monitor patients.