It is, either way, a spectacular failure to gauge the public mood.
In addition, analysts say that a failure to gauge supply needs and weather patterns accurately in an up-and-down economy has added to the squeeze on supplies.
President Rodriguez's term began with a period of unusual political co-operation, one result of which was the ICE plan; but the politicians' failure to gauge the public mood made the reform fail, and increased distrust.There are now proposals that aim to tackle voter apathy by increasing accountability, civil participation and the role of local government.
Further, Palin's retreat into self-pity and victimization in the wake of the shooting demonstrates that she is utterly devoid of self-reflection, completely unable to acknowledge her failure to gauge the dangers inherent in the situation at the time, or learn from her mistakes.
Drivetime music has a job to do, and its success or failure is gauged by whether it performs that job: does it comfort?
Common in Europe and some parts of the United States, the meters provide utilities with real-time data on electricity consumption, eliminating the need for meter readers and helping utilities track power failures and gauge more precisely how consumers use electricity.
But in two decades, the ceremonial toilette would be remaindered, as the country stripped their adopted queen of her finery again, and led her to the guillotine in a white shift, to pay the ultimate price for her failure to correctly gauge What Not to Wear in revolutionary France.
Cox, a former Orange County, Calif .congressmen, said that the agencies recent failure to accurately gauge ratings on subprime assets was a lot like when the ratings agencies said the County's books were fine right up to when the local government went bankrupt in 1994.
Investigators attributed the Pennsylvania derailment to a "wide gauge" failure, in which the rails were pushed too far apart to keep the wheels on the tracks.
Other countries are coming to us to say: "Can you give us advice?"' Cabinet Office Minister Paddy Tipping dismissed the failure of a tide gauge in Portsmouth harbour and a PC in a weather station in Aberdeen as 'too trivial to mention'.
