Now he has a fresh playoff failure to absorb, following last year's disastrous Game 7 elimination here by the Carolina Hurricanes, who won by scoring twice in the last 80 seconds.
With the failure fresh in her mind, she opted in 1996 for a more low-key and stable position, developing Web sites for the Egyptian government.
Logs from the inspectors charged with licensing the facility contain literally hundreds of citations for violations like leaking ceilings, unsanitary bathrooms, moldy refrigerator contents, the absence of fresh milk and failure to deliver three nutritiously balanced meals a day.
With that failure fresh in the memory, Broad opted to bat first when winning the toss, but a good opening stand of 35 between Craig Kieswetter and Kevin Pietersen looked set to be wasted when England wobbled at the end of the powerplay.
It's August, back to school time, and we've entered a period during which a new regime of high stakes tests are rolling-out, with a fresh chorus of "failure" and "privatize" singing out from the testing results.
It would come as no surprise were there to be a fresh wave of failures among hedge funds, and there was already evidence last week of assets being liquidated to cover losses.
Unfortunately, my team was constantly providing them with fresh material: individual failures, collective collapses and on one occasion a farcical "ball-tampering" scandal that caused the captain to go into hiding in the Lake District.
Fresh from a spectacular failure, from being fired from the most high-profile training job in England, Michael Dickinson arrived in this country, stepped off an airplane and told himself that he would win the Kentucky Derby.
Downing Street was forced yesterday to express Mr Cameron's full confidence in Andrew Lansley as Health Secretary amid fresh criticism of his failure to make the case for the Health and Social Care Bill.
