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James G. Blaine finally gained the 1884 Republican nomination for U.S. president on his third attempt: "Another victory like this and our money's gone!". A Pyrrhic victory (/ ˈ p ɪr ɪ k / ⓘ PIRR-ik) is a victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to defeat. [1]
In finance, survivorship bias is the tendency for failed companies to be excluded from performance studies because they no longer exist. It often causes the results of studies to skew higher because only companies that were successful enough to survive until the end of the period are included.
However in many situations, you pay the possible loss ("stake" or "wager") up front and, if you win, you are paid the net win plus you also get your stake returned. So wagering 2 at "3 to 2", pays out 3 + 2 = 5, which is called "5 for 2". When Moneyline odds are quoted as a positive number +X, it means that a wager pays X to 100.
Achievement ideology is the belief that one reaches a socially perceived definition of success through hard work and education. In this view, factors such as gender, race/ethnicity, economic background, social networks, or neighborhoods/geography are secondary to hard work and education or are altogether irrelevant in the pursuit of success.
Initially, the success fee was not recoverable from the losing party, but on 1 April 2000, section 27 of the Access to Justice Act 1999 [21] amended the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 to allow recovery of success fees from the losing party. The regulations that accompanied this change in the law (the Conditional Fee Agreements Regulations ...
Rhode Island Coalition to End Homelessness is starting a "pay for success" program for supportive housing that rewards investors if residents do well.
Failure is the social concept of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and is usually viewed as the opposite of success. [1] The criteria for failure depends on context, and may be relative to a particular observer or belief system.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 January 2025. Meeting or surpassing an intended goal or objective For other uses, see Success (disambiguation). A Nigerian man receives the smallpox vaccine in February 1969, as part of a global program that successfully eradicated the disease from the human population. Success is the state or ...