Many worried aloud that the buildings were in danger of at least partial failure.
First flown in 1999, it has been launched 35 times, with three failures and one partial failure.
"A partial failure of the financial sector, therefore, might lead to a systemic crisis."
Of the thirty five launches, two failed, and one resulted in a partial failure.
There was only one person who could have been responsible for that partial failure - The Shadow.
The second test flight (L502, on 30 October 1997) was a partial failure.
Instead, he said, the minister "acknowledged that there was a partial failure of communication."
Even more dangerous is the partial failure of an attempted implosion.
The governments think they know what our response is going to be; we gave it to them after the partial failure of Amsterdam.
Somehow, even the partial failure seemed not to matter so much.