11. In one test the failure came in the final five seconds. 12. In the private sphere, failure to perform comes with a price. 13. Its failure so far has come from a lack of political will, which has meant inadequate enforcement, local protectionism and little punishment for the guilty. 14. Now, in the twilight of his presidency, that failure has come to haunt him. 15. Some failures came as the result of dropped passes. 16. The concern over corporate failures comes as the economy grows at its slowest pace in four years and after a pair of high-profile bankruptcies earlier this year. 17. The failure came despite personal lobbying at the State House by the chairmen of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. and New York Life. 18. The failure came mostly because the companies ran out of money. 19. The failure comes amid already-slow corn export markets. 20. The key failure came in the sixth. |