Their interpretation of the costly failure was in stark contrast to that of Robin Geffen, of Neptune Investment Management, who has been the most outspoken of the Pru's dissenting shareholders.
How should we design our trials to identify predictive biomarkers that decrease the risk of such late and costly failures?
The failure is expected to cost the federal insurance fund an estimated $500 million, making it one of the costliest failures ever of a United States financial institution.
Fire minister Bob Neill said: "John Prescott's FiReControl project is the latest in Labour's catalogue of costly IT failures.
That will knock away one of the arguments for big pharma: its ability to survive costly failures.
Economists also tend to be skeptical of industry-sector policies because they are reminiscent of industrial policy initiatives in Europe and elsewhere in the postwar years that are widely seen as costly failures.
But it yielded some costly failures, too.
But development of weapons designed to be able to overcome defense systems has been slow and has faced costly failures.
Loosening loan standards may seem like a replay of what caused the mortgage mess, including the costly failure of Fannie and Freddie.
This serves its goals of maintaining its significant international profile and job security, but it has been a costly failure in terms of the rest of humanity, particularly because of the perverse effects to deny proven pain-control treatments to much of the world's population.
