failure
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Representatives for Katsis confirmed his death on Thursday in Los Angeles, from complications of congestive heart failure, in a statement to the Hollywood Reporter and Billboard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
"This analysis shows the scale of the failure to take the necessary action on tackling this obesity timebomb," he added.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
“Waiting until late August for a review is insufficient when these ‘corrections’ suggest a fundamental failure in reporting or disclosure,” he wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Young, launched a commission to look into the dam failure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Their failure was interpreted as an indictment of their accounting practices, which allowed them to record profits before they were realized.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Along with successes came not so much failures as experiments that didn’t achieve the desired results.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
But to Chesney, it is how you respond to those successes and failures that prevail.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
This can include damage in transport, passing the expiration date, and unused doses from multi-dose vials, but a major factor are failures in the cold chain.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Lilly doubled down on R&D, albeit with some failures, as part of an internal strategy called “timely valued medicines” that prioritized experimental therapies that could beat the standard of care, according to Lundberg.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
She followed him, leaving us boys to contemplate what had been, after all, our scorched, stinking failures.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 6
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