Soon after the second bond measure passed in 2006, the economy faltered and project costs soared.
However, the project faltered after its showcase project – The Borgias, the story of the Italian family who killed and kissed their way to riches and the papacy – became to television fiction what Eurovision was to music.
Private social-service agencies such as Action-for-Progress and the Community Service Society pitched in to keep the project from faltering.
In the capitols of Republican-controlled states, where the Party's scorched-earth partisanship has found its most extreme expression, the project is faltering, with a wave of special-election reversals and, more recently, mass teacher strikes.
The standings of both men will be enhanced with a successful resolution of this project; just as surely, each could be hurt if the project falters, or if there is any perception that the two men are quarreling over a project of such import.
A struggle between Amtrak and New York State has flared into public view, with Pataki administration officials accusing the faltering railroad of delaying projects and demanding too much money from the state.
But that project faltered, and last month the commission approved a renovation of the structure.
It's easy to think, as the European monetary project falters, that the things which bind Europeans together are less powerful than the ties of the nation state.
Though a 15-mile channel was eventually finished, Mr. Trowell added, a sandy ridge proved difficult to breach, even for Appalachian gold miners, and the project faltered.
