For industrial applications, however, if a tape fails to stick, it can endanger the umbilical link between an offshore windmill and shore or delay the construction of a new bridge at substantial cost.
On tape, Hamza failed to express any regret for what happened.
And his efforts to appease protesters by promising to privatize state-owned land and cut red tape have failed.
The Betamax video tape recorder failed in part because the company refused to coöperate with other companies.
However joylessly the astronaut may have embarked on his world tour, he resisted sullenness even in New York City, where stacks of I.B.M. punch cards being thrown like ticker tape sometimes failed to flutter apart and dented the limos like bricks.
The rest, as they say, is history: a flash flood and a double hernia finally did what the money men, the lawyers and the oceans of Euro red tape had failed to do - kill off Gilliam's decade-long labour of love in a matter of days.
Its attempt in the mid-1980s tovertakeke 3M in the sticky notes and transparent tape markets failed.
One interview with a PD informant is also based on the notes alone because the tape recording failed.
