It was a leap – one that ultimately failed to land.
The stock exchanges, for their part, were making a bid (that ultimately failed) to become brokers.
Marcus Garvey championed a back-to-Africa movement that ultimately failed.
He said he had stopped paying taxes after opening branches in Cambridge and Somerville, Mass., that ultimately failed.
Mr. Tourre, 34, a Frenchman who was on Goldman's mortgage desk, was the point person in constructing a 2007 debt investment that ultimately failed.
Mushanokōji bought land in southern Japan and in 1918 founded Atarashiki Mura ("New Village"), an experiment in communal living that ultimately failed.
Mr. Killinger received more than $65 million in compensation from 2005 to 2008, a significant sum for presiding over an institution that ultimately failed.
He was the last remaining and most successful member of the Yamato Colony, Japanese farmers who came to Florida for an agricultural venture that ultimately failed.
The Pentagon charged in its filing that Oracle is engaged in a "broad fishing expedition" and regurgitating arguments it used in a previous legal battle that ultimately failed.
And bin Laden had become the titular head of a violent, fundamentalist movement that ultimately failed, swept aside by a wave of youthful sentiment in the Middle East inspired by "more universal ideals of democracy," said Walt.
Long-term (up to 75 years) studies in the western United States show that short-term monitoring of plant community composition alone incorrectly predicted the failure of treatments that were ultimately successful, and the success of treatments that ultimately failed.
