As Geoffrey Dennis, of Care UK, points out, many other regions of Sri Lanka exported labour to the tourist resorts of the south, and so are beginning to feel the pinch of the current slump.There is also a risk that the authorities may over-react, and introduce ill-considered new policies.
Leaving the obvious political jokes aside for fear of introducing ill-feeling into an otherwise straightforwardly joyful recipe, fools fall into two main camps: custard-based, or pure whipped cream.
Such a strategy requires a different attitude towards public services than that of new Labour which undertakes by setting vague goals and introducing ill-conceived incentives with perverse and unintended outcomes.
Even Mr. Obama's decision to address a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night to jumpstart his health initiative left some aides wary, given the inevitable parallels with Mr. Clinton's September address 16 years ago to introduce his ill-fated plan.
You can't introduce an ill-conceived law intended to block foreign websites with no judicial process.
During the discussion, some participants reported cultural beliefs that breastfeeding a baby when one was acutely mentally ill would introduce the mental illness to the baby later on in his or her life.
Those opposed to HidroAysén and Patagonia National Park say their presence has already introduced social ills and caused divisions among residents of this tight-knit community.
But too often the changes introduced were ill-judged and based on financial expediency or a vision no longer entirely in tune with what its own staff believed the World Service should be doing.
FIFTY years after Ford introduced the ill-fated Edsel — considered the biggest flop in American automotive marketing — carmakers are still struggling to find a formula for appealing to finicky consumers.
As Winston Churchill found to his cost in 1986 when he introduced an ill-fated private members bill to reform the Obscene Publications Act, the real problem with such an approach is not that it doesn't catch everything it's supposed to, but that it catches a very great deal more besides.
Ever since Chemical Bank introduced its ill-fated Pronto home banking product back in the early 1980s (and threw in the towel $20 million later, in 1989), banks have been struggling to figure out a way to get customers away from the branch network and onto this more cost-effective channel.
