Others said Kaine was recalcitrant in his views in a way that failed to crack the partisan divide.
But the outgoing administrator, Carol Browner, found that she was forced to intervene in at least a dozen states -- Virginia and Texas were notorious offenders -- that failed to crack down on polluters.
"And the number one when I left". Her trajectory since then has included stints at tech giants YouTube and Google, as well as a gig with Hailo, the U.K.-based taxi hailing app that failed to crack the U.S. market.
Against stiff competition from the final installment of ABC's top-rated North and South, Book II miniseries, the movie failed to crack the top 20 in that week's Nielsen ratings.
On Friday, Mr. Karzai dismissed criticism that his government was not battling corruption and had failed to crack down on the poppy trade that was helping to finance the Taliban insurgency.
Whatever the merits of a ban on smacking, this wildly unrealistic goal is hardly the top priority for an organisation that has failed to crack down on far worse forms of abuse by its own blue-helmeted soldiers (see article).
Sudan had become a haven for terrorists — including Osama bin Laden, who had settled there in 1991 — and had repressed religious minorities in the South; in addition, it had failed to crack down on a slave trade that had emerged there.
Although he was brave enough to adapt Catch-22, a project that even Billy Wilder failed to crack, he has not managed to maintain the eye for entertaining, edgy material that made his early career exceptional.
That has unnerved investors, who also mutter that Dell has failed to crack fast-growing consumer markets for things such as smartphones and tablet computers.Dell's shares have underperformed the NASDAQ stockmarket for some time (see chart).
According to Reuters, Buhari's spokesman said this year that it is "disturbing" to suggest that he has failed to crack down on the attacks because of his ethnicity.
