The ICB was not tasked with looking at broader failures in the financial services sector.

But investigations of the homeless man who was charged with the crime, Steven Smith, produced evidence of much broader failures.

CNN Money is emblematic of the company's broader failure to fulfill much of the synergistic vision outlined in headier days.

But a decade after the 1983 report "A Nation at Risk" alerted America to broad failures in education, the news is not much better.

The breaches along the 17th Street and London Avenue canals were part of a broad failure of the hurricane protection system that let floodwaters into 80 percent of the city.

They said the lawsuit reflected a broad failure of state government to support education, even though neither of their cities had plaintiffs in the case.

Japan's amnesia underscores the nation's broader failure to come to terms with the war, something for which it is frequently criticized, especially by Asian neighbors.

This critique extends from specific fumbles, like the mishandling of the Robert Bork nomination, to the broader failure to significantly reduce the size and scope of government.

He was alluding to the collapse of the Democratic drive to pass national health legislation, which many consultants believe came to symbolize the party's broader failures in the 1994 elections.

They say, too, that the pilots are being made scapegoats by military superiors for broader, systemic failures.