Those rich countries are failing woefully to meet their own solemnly declared targets of ODA amounting to 0.7 per cent of their gross domestic product.

The failure has been dramatic.

Unfortunately, the pact failed miserably.

The United States tried to train the Malian army, but failed miserably.

But the first potential vaccine to be tested for efficacy recently failed miserably.

To be sure, Romney and Ryan have failed to provide specifics about how they would reduce the fiscal deficit, relying on trust me assertions.

But we have not been able to save the world and humankind from a protracted series of cruel and bloody wars, and in that context we have undeniably failed.

Across the region, countless exchange rate regimes have been tried some succeeding, others failing abysmally.

Central banks state of the art macroeconomic models also failed miserably to a degree that the economics profession has only now begun to acknowledge fully.

But both the international community and Iran failed to follow through, and now that opportunity has increasingly become moot as Iranian engineers gain confidence in their handiwork.

BUENOS AIRES Ever since World War II, the countries of Latin America have served as something of a currency laboratory. Across the region, countless exchange rate regimes have been tried some succeeding, others failing abysmally.

It is too early to praise the deal as an historic achievement, but it is also far too soon to peg it as a failure, or to suggest that better negotiators somehow could have done a better job of wrangling concessions from their Iranian counterparts.

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