This disrupted the project, a joint venture with a Chinese company, which then backed out — a loss for the American company of hundreds of millions of dollars, Mr. Sullivan said, that could have been avoided with a better assessment before the man left home.
At an authority committee meeting last month, officials suggested that a single unfortunate bet had disrupted the project: While other transit agencies invested in contactless payment systems that they would construct themselves, the authority had hoped to evade the burden and cost of building its own.
The Taliban, still an active threat in Afghanistan, has vowed to disrupt the project if American firms are involved.
Even a short delay could disrupt the project's computerized system, which coordinates cues between images, landscape, sound design and performances.
A spokesman for Mr. McGreevey said he was pleased that the state attorney general was looking into the matter, as it may disrupt the project.
Its members don't discuss plans on the telephone or give away details, out of fear that the security services will disrupt the project.
Zacharie's death threatened to disrupt the project, but King Louis XVI of France was personally interested, and Zacharie's oldest son, Guillaume, was allowed to resume the work.
He reveals that he is a member of SPECTRE (SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion) and plans to disrupt the Project Mercury space launch from Cape Canaveral with his atomic-powered radio beam.
If you're moving, for example, a car dealership's computer system, then threats such as nuclear war, plague pandemic or killer asteroids are pretty much things that will disrupt the project.
The bombing disrupted the construction project and the initial raids of 5 and 8 November 1943 caused work to be delayed for about a month.
May-Bowles, also known by his stage name "Jonnie Marbles", disrupted the proceedings by projecting a paper plate of shaving foam at Mr Murdoch.
