Flaws in the current voting system of first-past-the-post (FPTP) have contributed to a dangerous sense that British voters have too little sway over those who govern them.
A subsequent inquiry found that serious flaws in the design of the signaling system had contributed to a failure to warn the trailing train that another train had been delayed in front of it.
A NEW LINE IN THE SAND -- The accounting industry, which has repeatedly failed to uncover corporate abuses, sought to reassure investors that it would change certain practices that might have contributed to Arthur Andersen's flaws in monitoring Enron's financial practices.
Jim Walter Resources, said none of the violations involved a flaw that might have contributed to the disaster, the nation's deadliest coal mining accident since 1984.
The investigation, though preliminary, has not turned up any fundamental design flaws with the train or with the elevated rail that might have contributed to the accident and would force a rethinking of the project.
The committee noted that the study avoided organizational flaws that could have contributed to the explosion.
Second, the trial design was flawed by the inclusion of a low dose of niacin (50 mg/capsule) in the placebo, which may have contributed to the 12% increase in HDL cholesterol plasma concentration in the control group.
More than half of the 300+ cases in the Innocence Project's database of DNA exonerations included unreliable or improper forensic science evidence, and last July, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) launched a review of over 21,000 FBI cases to determine if flawed forensic work has contributed to other wrongful convictions.
But Lawrence H. Silverman, a member of the board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the railroad, said he suspected that design flaws, like the excess weight of the new locomotives, had contributed to the development of the cracks.
