After Tuesday's workout, he sat with reporters and talked openly about his successes and failures, professional and personal.
Gradually, Christensen realized their idealism was disintegrating in many cases into "personal dissatisfaction, family failures, professional struggles, even criminal behavior" — one contemporary was Jeff Skilling, the disgraced former chief executive of Enron.
When the dancers occasionally fluff any of these effects, there's an astonishing awkwardness in the failure: professional dancers can usually fudge these moments; the Cuban dancers seem to have learned a do-or-die approach that permits no such skills.
Even in the late 20th century, in an age more given to cynicism, the successes and failures of professional teams continued to evoke strong feelings among local residents.
They may have been failures as professional criminals, but by the time they were sentenced to life in prison at the age of 35, their brand was already a phenomenal success.
Dr. Cooley had his failures, both professional (a sheep-to-human experimental heart transplant was unsuccessful) and personal (he declared bankruptcy from failed real estate investments in the early 1980s).
It examines the demands of naval command, flag officers' understanding of their authority and their approach to exercising it, their ambitions and failures, their professional interactions, and their lives afloat and onshore.
This, in turn, allows questions about the potential success of these jihadist magazines to be answered: how well they are able to deploy influence (how dangerous these magazines are), and how they react to world events and their own successes and failures (how professional or strategic they are).
In addition, much Tea Party anger is focused on the failures of "professional politicians" rather than on the evil of public services.
Counter arguments to PAS concerned risks of abuse, the slippery slope, procedural failures, and professional role erosion.
In England, the high profile and well documented failures in professional practice at Mid Staffordshire hospital trust raised serious concerns about boards' reliance on external systems of checking, verification and audit at the expense of wider considerations relating to patient care.
