11.   If a company fails to meet one of these it is excluded from the portfolio.

12.   The Labour MP Dr Jack Cunningham was touring the complex during the nuclear spillage, but the nuclear company failed to notify him of the incident.

13.   With regard to business correspondence, Japanese companies may fail to answer written enquiries concerning possible business relationships.

14.   Also, executives whose companies fail to sell their contested Cuban assets can be barred, along with their families, from entering the U.S.

15.   Although it has bought a small stake in a French cable TV channel, the company has so far failed to agree a partnership with a U.S. company.

16.   American car companies failed when they tried to sell cars that were cheap and efficient but that did not change from year to year.

17.   An American Home Products Corp. unit is being sued by a New York woman who said the company failed to warn consumers about lead in its calcium supplements.

18.   And all too few companies fail to ask users of their products if their manuals are useful.

19.   And now that life insurance companies have failed to keep banks out of that business, it is their agents who stand to lose the most.

20.   And small start-up companies fail at an alarmingly high rate, leaving many people holding the bag.