With government schemes failing expensively on all sides, it's easier to prevent the unemployed claiming unemployment benefits than to find them work.
By the end of 2007, that trading scheme was failing; last month it was on life support.
But Andy Elvin, a spokesman for Tact, warned that the scheme risked failing to account for the needs of thousands of children for whom adoption was not the best solution.
Chief executive Stephen Hester and outgoing finance director Bruce van Saun missed out on bonuses under the scheme after failing to reach any of the performance targets attached to their share awards.
The city's complaint accuses several operators of about a dozen cigarette retail Web sites of engaging in a huge tax evasion scheme by failing to file reports that alert state tax authorities to out-of-state cigarette purchases.
Indeed, Gordon Brown, the British chancellor of the exchequer, says the European and Californian schemes one day should be linked as part of a worldwide carbon-trading network.Yet even while lauded as a model for others, the scheme is failing at home.
Five months into the S.E.C. job, Mr. Ceresney argued that the new leadership had brought improvements to the agency, which was sharply criticized for missing financial frauds like the Madoff Ponzi scheme and failing to charge any top Wall Street executives tied to the financial crisis.
For now, you may be better off sticking with the simpler and almost universal Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) scheme, whose failing is that it can be broken by determined hackers who probably don't live near you.
The Welsh Language Board has accused the Assembly Commission, responsible for day-to-day business in Cardiff Bay, of breaking its language scheme by failing to produce a fully bilingual record of plenary sessions - the assembly's equivalent to parliament's Hansard.
