In your July 9 front-page article discussing the missile defense test failure, Gov. George W. Bush said, "Given the right leadership, America can develop an effective missile defense system".
With a few vital strokes — a long, chilly walk and a tired trudge up some stairs — Mr. Farina and Mr. Maggio bring you close to a character whose vanity, evident in Joe's flashy clothes and hard talk, and in the way he straightens up before he enters a room, has become his final defense against failure.
In fact, I'd go so far as to say that your single best defense against failure, as a leader, is to create an environment where people will tell you the truth, day-to-day.
One possible explanation is that the lack of co-evolutionary relationship between alternative hosts and these parasitoids hinder the suppression of host immune defense, causing failures in the mass production or even possible failures in the use of these natural enemies to control insects pests.
Perhaps it's the hideous metastasis of helicopter parenting, which not only robs children of their childhood and sandlot pickup games but, more ominously, their defenses against failure and disappointment in college and life.
In this paper, we propose a new matching model of capacity by developing a profit function to defense cascading failures on artificially created scale-free networks and the real network structure of the North American power grid.
[Page C1.] Lawyers Deliver Opening Statements in Enron Trial In opening arguments in the trial of the former Enron executives Kenneth L. Lay and Jeffrey K. Skilling, the prosecution accused the two executives of lying while the defense acknowledged the failure of the company but said failure was not a crime.
Miller's aggressive defense and her failure to provide a full account have left many athletes in the triathlon community angry and frustrated.
Assistance to Counsel The Supreme Court agreed to consider when a criminal defense lawyer's failure to challenge a sentencing error should result in a ruling that the defendant did not have adequate legal representation.
Engle v. Isaac, supra, left open the question whether the novelty of a constitutional issue at the time of a state-court proceeding could, as a general matter, give rise to cause for defense counsel's failure to raise the issue in accordance with applicable state procedures.
