Word: failed
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...problem is not that is was not foreseen, but rather, that corporate and especially government managers do not see a pressing need to deal with it. Currently, less than 25 percent of US states have begun implementation or testing of year 2000 conversion plans. Often ill-informed state legislatures fail to provide adequate funding for the necessary risk assessment...
...There really is no single piece of hardware that can fail and take out the whole system," said Rick B. Osterberg '96, director of residential computing support. "There are two server boxes, two power sources, two of everything...
...Since then both Glaser's wife and his daughter have died. So he wasn't altogether surprised when doctors told him in November that the levels of HIV in Jake's blood had started to climb--a sign that the 12-year-old's immune system was beginning to fail. But neither was Glaser totally prepared for what happened next...
...silicon for lead, it will get a more lethal fighting force that can destroy much larger armies with few or no casualties--much as the allied forces did so effectively against Iraq in the Persian Gulf War six years ago. The risk is that the fancy new systems will fail under field conditions, leaving American troops more vulnerable than they were before...
...quickly we forget. Fifty years after Robinson broke the color line in major league baseball, far too many people, both black and white, fail to understand the significance of his achievement. That includes young, hugely paid major league superstars like White Sox first baseman Frank Thomas, who appeared in an ESPN show about Robinson last month. When asked whether he thought much about Robinson, he replied, "Not really...I'm really more about the New Age." It was, as Washington Post columnist Michael Wilbon observed, an occasion for sadness and embarrassment for Thomas' ignorance...