11.   Finally, I asked whether failure meant heart failure.

12.   For the Greenspans, the power failure meant spending two nights with friends and then moving in with relatives.

13.   Holbrooke declined to speculate what his failure meant for the next round of talks.

14.   Noll is saddened by the lack of influence in American life that this failure has meant, but his ultimate objection is theological and religious.

15.   Prolonged failure could eventually mean a shakeout in the chip industry as companies unable to bear the huge costs of research leave the field to rivals with deeper pockets.

16.   Still, when it came to grooming them to inherit power, he was careful to give limited responsibilities at first, so that failure would not mean disaster.

17.   That failure means some areas around the country that need the fuel will have to wait an extra month to get it.

18.   What the failures mean for the prospects of reform.

19.   And failure might mean another long delay, or worse, in returning Formula One to the United States.

20.   But officials also said that a failure would only mean more development and testing.