Notably, the crises there have not recurred.The most disturbing failure in California, however, lies with the regulators themselves.
A week on Monday it is Commons defence questions and ministers can brace themselves for a further inquisition into why such a spectacular and disturbing failure could happen.
A year ago, in a bureaucratic shift that went unremarked in the somnolent days before Michael Brown was shot dead in Ferguson, Missouri, the US government admitted a disturbing failure.
Other tests have shown that America's younger students fare better in global comparisons than its older students do, which suggests a disturbing failure of educators to nurture good students as they progress to higher grades.
Whatever the initiating event may prove to be -- experts think the collapse started in the Midwest -- the most disturbing failure was the inability of the system to isolate the damage before it could spread.
Re "Unicef Is Fighting Violence Against Women" (news article, March 9): In assessing Unicef's global campaign to end the "culturally sanctioned homicide" of women and girls, we must not overlook our own society's disturbing failure to protect women from domestic abuse.
It creates a disturbing failure, and a quite consistent effect, so that the observer cannot fully decode the information.
They grew up in lethally violent, extremely poor areas where health and safety were luxuries their families could not afford.... [They] have in common the disturbing failure of police, family courts, child protection agencies, foster systems, and health care providers to treat and protect them.
