The problem, however, is that most of these companies were in the wrong space, as the Yahoo has failed to expand its presence in mobile search and the social media.
In 1991, American Express was suffering from the results of a failed attempt to expand into a full-fledged financial services conglomerate and needed cash.
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But they failed when they tried to rapidly expand a flawed business model.
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But it completely failed to consider that if Florida did not expand Medicaid, the federal government would end up providing even larger subsidies to would-be Medicaid eligibles who are near-poor.
"Unfortunately, the previous administration failed to work out how to boost growth and expand the economic pie, " Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said.
The Welsh assembly has offered grants to encourage health service dentists to set up or expand in areas where there are shortages, but so far this has failed to attract the number of dentists required.
While suppliers would go through a rough patch if GM failed, those surviving automakers would expand their businesses to fill the void GM leaves.
These stumbles come on the heels of other failed Democratic efforts, including reform of the nation's immigration policies and a plan to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
If General Musharraf has failed to change the political landscape very much by holding these elections, his hope that political representation would expand horizontally by reserving a large chunk of the seats for women and minorities (35%) has also been thwarted.
The centerpiece of a Democrat-led gun-control effort a plan to expand the system of background checks aimed at detecting buyers ineligible to own guns failed in a 54-46 vote, six votes shy of the 60 needed to advance.
This year the economy is expected to expand by 8.2% but critics say the billions of dollars from oil revenues have failed to close the stark gap between a tiny wealthy elite and the millions of poor living without access to electricity, water supply and sanitation.
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