Word: fails
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...usually kill the bills, but they invariably launch negotiations with the bills' authors or the leadership on what can be done to appease DeMint's or Coburn's concerns; usually all they are asking for is a chance to debate and amend the bill - even if their amendments fail they still serve as a symbolic line in the sand. Increasingly, though, the group has started winning votes. Although the group's signature concern has been spending, their biggest victory was killing the immigration bill. They also held up the lobbying reform bill until much more stringent controls on earmark spending...
...system for insuring customers' bank deposits also muddled the authorities' message for calm. Should a bank fail, savings of up to around $60,000 are protected. For those customers with bigger deposits, the safeguards are less clearly defined. If authorities are to reassure savers in the event of another bank hitting the buffers, they'd do well to reform this system says Alex Potter, an analyst at Collins Stewart in London. For now, though, Northern Rock is trying to get back to business. "These have been troubled times," CEO Adam Applegarth said in full-page newspaper ads published today...
...particular area. Another research tool, known as the Drug Abuse Warning Network, or DAWN, tracks the number of emergency-room visits and drug overdoses throughout the country. Using figures like these, officials determine where and how funding will be allocated throughout the country, Compton says. But these numbers fail to account for those drug dealers and users who have managed to avoid doctors and police...
...prepare for the worst" in its negotiations with Tehran - and that "the worst is war." That declaration came just one month after Sarkozy himself offered his own stark assessment of the two choices at hand - "an Iranian bomb and a bombardment of Iran" - should negotiations with Tehran fail...
...presidential contender, he has distanced himself from the Massachusetts program, which is proving costlier and more difficult to implement than advertised. He also says that what works for an individual state may not work nationally. "A one-size-fits-all national health care system is bound to fail," Romney said in introducing his plan last month...