There have been too many delays, too many failures, too much egotism: from electricity to gas, from telecommunications to Galileo to the Community patent.
In the end, the lyrics -- about heart failure from too much coke -- are beside the point.
The fear of an irreversible, highly publicized failure simply too much to bear.
The Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department are acting like insurance claims adjusters, selectively providing assistance when a company's failure seems too much for the financial markets to withstand.
Innovation comes from those who are happy to embark on a course of action without quite knowing where it will lead, without doing a feasibility study, without fear of failure or too much hope of reward.
But after a season of trying, I couldn't take it any more – he didn't care what I did in training or in those final few minutes, and the sense of failure was too much for me to bear, so I gave up, both on the team and competitive football, for good.
Economists argue that these speculative frenzies are caused in part by market failures like too much liquidity or lax regulation.
Too much failure, too many variables.
