Australia's expert planning and execution with the ball, certainly.
The stimulus package, the cap-and-trade legislation and the health care bill were all blends of expert planning and political power-broking.
"It was just a race for the water, with no expert planning," said Sikander Brohi, a development expert at the Center for Information and Research of the Bhutto Institute in Karachi.
"This took expert planning and hundreds of millions of dollars to build," said Brian Reid, director of engineering at the Internet Systems Consortium in Redwood City, Calif.
It was telling though that despite the expert planning, Mr. Riordan was thrown on the defensive by some of Mr. Simon's charges over his record.
The expert planned to take a new job with the American-financed Afghanistan Stabilization Initiative, as the director of a program in one of the rural districts around Kandahar.
After determining the location and the type of implant, each participant was asked to perform the procedure corresponding to the virtual "expert" planning furnished by the simulator.
If countries in this region are to sustain the rapid growth of the last 20 years, careful, expert planning to build healthy, well-educated and engaged populations is vital.
American and Russian experts plan to meet to discuss antimissile technology in more detail.
Next month, the experts plan to return to the site and survey the seabed for the remains of ancient ships, arms and armor.
The cancer experts plan to organize meetings with drug companies, patient groups, insurers and others to discuss why cancer drug prices are so high and what might be done to lower them.
