21.   Speculation the fires and equipment failures at refineries owned by British Petroleum Co. and Exxon Corp., may reduce gasoline production helped push prices higher.

22.   Sugar workers here said equipment failures were clearly one of the main factors in the disastrous harvest that ended only in June, about two months later than normal.

23.   Tales of equipment failures are tall but true in this business.

24.   That makes nuclear power a cruel and unforgiving technology that cannot tolerate equipment failures or human mistakes.

25.   The Federal Aviation Administration has announced a series of actions to prepare air traffic controllers for equipment failures, an acknowledgment that such breakdowns are becoming more common.

26.   The first was that any worker who developed CBD had been suddenly exposed to higher-than-allowed beryllium levels, either through equipment failure or carelessness.

27.   The NRC staff analysis, however, placed less blame on equipment failures and more emphasis on inadequate procedures and decision-making.

28.   The possibility that an equipment failure was to blame seemed to ebb Friday.

29.   Their predecessors on Mir almost came to blows after enduring six months of terrible food, constant equipment failures and meteor storms.

30.   There were work stoppages and equipment failures.