The Drug War u0027s Failures

Don't set your failure down to bad luck.

Indeed, the attacks represent more than a failure of police work.

Success is in the doing, and failures are celebrated and analyzed.

UBS had gaps in its US mortgage products.

China has recently suffered other public relations disasters as well.

Regulatory failures expose people and the environment to horrific risks.

But the failures in Iraq are a matter of strategy, not troop strength.

India s high performing private sector has so far masked the failure of the Indian state.

On the contrary, the failures of US policy have contributed to reduce the legitimacy of America s power further.

Where they are likely to amplify pre war grievances and failures, prospects for recurrence are much higher.

Every regime we have had lives under his shadow .both in terms of his achievement and his failures.

But, whatever the failures of particular British legislators, the issues go further than merely allowing voters to throw the rascals out.

The stumbling block has been potential investors fear that accounting fiascos in emerging countries would render the bonds unsafe.

When public support for Putin s annexation of Crimea wanes as it will his failings will shine more starkly in the light of the MH17 catastrophe.

Such cases seem to point to the return of a European past in which democracy s failures gave way to more expedient forms of government.

In the end, of course, it doesn t matter much whether or not we ascribe the failures of autocracy and non intervention to anything specifically Asian.

The commission argues that top bankers dodged accountability for failings on their watch by claiming ignorance or hiding behind collective decision making.

Having failed to put forward a clear and effective program of internal reform, the young President sought to make up for his domestic failure in the realm of foreign affairs.

But, whatever Mao s terrible failings, during his years of absolute power there was a sense of common purpose and solidarity that went with shared hardship.

I wish I could think of all the other areas they are going to list as achievements, but their numerous and glaring failures are far too apparent to me.

Failures to promote social solidarity can have other costs, not the least of which are the social and private expenditures required to protect property and incarcerate criminals.

Notwithstanding these failures, Turkey s strategic stature did not suffer, partly because the diminution of US engagement under President Barack Obama enabled Turkey to fill the ensuing regional power vacuum.

In the eyes of Western (including Japanese) political leaders, it has never amounted to more than a small, fringe country whose economic failings made it appear to be poised perpetually on the edge of self destruction.

The intervention had its low points, perhaps none lower than the bombing of the Chinese Embassy, which was misidentified as a building that housed Serbian security assets instruments of repression against Kosovo.

Yet, aside from a grudging admission that its predictions about Himalayan glaciers were poorly substantiated, the IPCC has yet to acknowledge much less apologize for any of the lapses.

So this is a particularly opportune moment to look back and assess our achievements, note our failures, and perhaps see what elements in our transition to democracy may be applied elsewhere.

Despite his grave failings as IAEA chief before 1991, Blix once again came to lead UN disarmament inspectors, this time in tandem with another Swede, Ambassador Rolf Ekéus.

On the financial side, however, the magnitude of the chaos is staggering mammoth failures of risk management on the part of highly leveraged financial institutions that must be first rate risk managers in order to survive.

Until the IMF in particular is called to task for its failures everyone risks waking up to financial shocks that undermine living standards in developing countries and threaten global stability.

Failures in Indonesia, Thailand, and Korea of 1997 were followed by failures in Russia and Brazil the next year in those cases, attempts to maintain exchange rates at overvalued levels left taxpayers in those countries billions of dollars poorer.

Noting the loss of five out of eight school aides employed by Public School 36 in Harlem, where 68 percent of the students live in poverty, the lawsuit says, This is not a neighborhood of well heeled parents who can fund raise to make up the budget shortfalls.