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Although each of the notable failures involved a different type of bridge, in no case was the structure radically new.
It was also known to Galileo, who noted that Renaissance engineers who followed successful methods of building ships and moving obelisks were often surprised by the spontaneous failures when tried with larger ships and obelisks.
Failures always reveal weaknesses and provide incontrovertible evidence of our incomplete understanding of how things work.
When the failures described above occurred, engineers were sensitized to their own limitations and so approached subsequent designs - no matter of what kind of bridge - with renewed respect for the laws and forces of nature.
Unfortunately, human memory fades with time, and new generations of engineers with no vivid experience of past failures can proceed with hubris to design again beyond wise limits.
As such, its development into ever longer spans is following the historic pattern that in the past has led to failures.
Instead, she waited, despite the risk that future policy failures might erode her popularity.
There is a danger, however, in over-reacting to the failures of the Bush administration’s policies.
As a result, Greece has avoided generalized bank failures, and it has been able to continue paying its public employees.
In fact, the EU’s chief failures have little to do with democracy.
Owing to the failures of past governments, Italy has not experienced per capita GDP growth for two decades.
True, no great war has erupted, and we have more or less avoided the mistakes of the Great Depression, which led in the 1930s to greater protectionism, bank failures, severe austerity, and a deflationary environment.
The failures in the oil-rich Middle East are legion.
The biggest failures of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia may not have been their repressive politics but their failed economics.
But Putin’s provocations and the legacy of Obama’s foreign-policy failures could spur him to cut his political losses by taking unexpected action.
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“Regulatory failures expose people and the environment to horrific risks.”
Their economic and political failures were in large part due to secessionist movements – actively supported by Russia – that aimed at keeping both countries in the Kremlin’s “sphere of influence.”
But most of all, we must use our collective dissatisfaction with past failures to fuel efforts to make quality health care a reality for everyone.
At its best and at its worst, the UN is a mirror of our world: it reflects our differences and our convergences, our hopes and aspirations, and our limitations and failures.
By contrast, the most serious bank failures inside the EC in the 1990’s – including BCCI, Crédit Lyonnais, and Barings – had only a limited fiscal cost and a negligible impact on growth.
Small failures can give birth to large panics, which means that in a crisis almost everyone is “too big to fail.”
These fiscal-policy failures have put too much of the burden on central banks, even though growth would more likely accelerate with productivity-enhancing supply-side measures.
Otherwise, we can add one more issue to the growing list of the Bush administration’s foreign policy failures.
It is not a pleasant thought – and perhaps even a dangerous one – but the fact remains that many people, not just ideologues, put their hopes in the twentieth century’s authoritarian and totalitarian experiments, viewing politicians like Mussolini and even Stalin as problem-solvers, while liberal democrats were written off as dithering failures.
Governments must step up to address market failures, while planning, implementing, and enforcing industrial policies that address the shortcomings of previous ineffective versions.
And, though the Fed was partly responsible for the regulatory failures that led to the global economy’s near-meltdown in 2008-2009, post-crisis reform has left it with even greater authority and more responsibility for overseeing the financial system.
Although Merkel’s characteristically dull campaign approach won her a fourth term as chancellor last year, her electoral base has weakened considerably – a trend that has been reinforced by domestic economic failures.
If bank failures typically reflect real underlying problems, sensitive professional investors can be expected to react quickly when any whiff of panic is in the air.
Some in the West – including veteran China watcher David Shambaugh – remain convinced that this kind of collaborative accommodation will not be necessary, because failures of economic and political management will bring about China’s implosion.
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