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Secretary-General Kofi Annan told Milan's Corriere della Sera Sunday that he knew he was close to an agreement with Saddam Hussein in Baghdad when the Iraqi leader asked him if he could leave the room for a few moments to pray ("I knew that the pope was also praying for peace, and with such support, how could I fail?"
Affirmative action is likely to fail when it is merely a special preference bestowed upon those who have the right parents, whether "right" means educational pedigree or skin color.
According to one executive we met with, change initiatives that are implemented slowly generally fail because staff have too much time to contemplate the potential negative effects that change might bring and rally opposition that ultimately undermines the effort.
Over the following three years, the cable industry was everyone's favorite selection as the industry most likely to fail.
"Many popular textbooks on economic theory fail even to address subjects as basic to our economic choices as pollution or the depletion of natural resources," Gore declares.