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To break even.
To neither win nor lose.
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The majority of Haynesville wells fail to break-even on a full-cycle basis at prevailing gas prices.
But despite years of critical success, the company failed to break even, let alone turn a profit.
The event failed to break even, however, and consequently Gabriel reunited with former Genesis bandmates, both to pay off debts and to raise money for the cause.
The school has failed to break even in every financial year since its founding in 1996 and it owes Oxford University another £5m for help with the construction cost of its new building.
Despite taking $369m at the box office, the Tom Cruise-staction action spectacular Edge Of Tomorrow failed to break even, thanks to a visual-effects budget big enough to make Cruise's eight-figure salary look like peanuts.
Of the 46 clubs that failed to break even, 20 made losses of more than the acceptable total of €45m over three seasons that would lead to sanctions of up to a ban from European competition.
The villagers have tried to lift their incomes by jointly investing in an eco-lodge but it has failed to break even in recent years, prompting a growing number of residents to look more favourably on the offer from the oil firms.
Equally difficult was Windows RT, which failed to break even 1 million units at 720,000 shipped.
Given the 41,000 crowd in a 75,000-capacity stadium meant the game's organisers failed to break even, they might regret the decision to bring Argentina, Portugal, and the two best players on the planet to Manchester in the first place.
Around half of English universities will fail to break even in the coming year, up from a third this year, while a quarter admit to being in financial trouble; the real number may be higher.
But earlier this month, STMicro said that it would divest itself of its stake after ST-Ericsson failed to achieve break-even.
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