For example, in one trust, a technology reported in interview accounts as 'fully implemented' was not verified as such during observation visits to implementation wards.
Such reform would require an admission that the way the teacher training reforms were implemented was faulty.
The test had been designed for use in an air-conditioned American lab, but the Indian lab in which it was being implemented was cooled with ceiling fans.
His blustering claim that "what has been decided will now be implemented" was received with widespread scepticism.
"The way it was implemented was a way of taking the more active pickets off the scene by using bail conditions.
"The time between the approval of the software and the time it was implemented was incredibly quick," said a head of equity trading at another firm.
Getting that agreed and implemented was expected to be one of Mr Modi's early acts, but progress appears to have stalled.
That law, never implemented, was part of a range of social-security reforms that led to two years of civil unrest and Mr Juppé's humiliation in the general election of 1997.
Also, if we do nothing, Dick Cheney will continue to insist that what he advised and implemented was critical to our national security, even though that has been debunked.
Among those who attended the presentation, out of curiosity rather than any conviction it might be implemented, was Gordon J. Davis, chosen less than two weeks ago to be Lincoln Center's next president, replacing Nathan Leventhal, who is retiring after 17 years.
In the past century, there have been multiple proposals to replace Chinese characters with an alphabet, all unsuccessful; the only reform ever implemented was to invent simplified versions of the more complex characters, which solved none of the problems I've mentioned and created new ones besides.
