Defensively, the Fire have been a shambles of late, shipping seven in our last two matches.
"We had the idea for the project when Greece was flying high," says Andreas Dracopoulos, co-president of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the private charitable fund formed from the fortune of the late shipping magnate, which bankrolled the entire project.
"Sometimes they're hard to reach, late shipping items, or ship you low quality goods.
Topping the ranks is Philip Niarchos, son of the late shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos and father of Stavros III, who was linked in the past to American heiress Paris Hilton.
In the event, the team was not able to avoid the all-too-frequent fate of being yet another late shipping hardware crowdfunding project.
Marrying those scorecards to financial and other databases, Open Ratings presumes to predict which suppliers are most likely to deliver late, ship defective products or go bankrupt before completing a contract.
That percentage is likely to increase today and tomorrow, as it is too late to ship gifts but not too late to shop.
SHORTLY after the last general election in 1992, Sir Y.K. Pao, the late Hong Kong shipping magnate, received a call from Margaret Thatcher's son, Mark, asking for a contribution to his mother's newly established foundation.
The company chairman, Bill Lasky, said JLG, a leading producer of mobile aerial work platforms, had received enough orders to meet its previous forecast, but many came in too late to ship and book in its fiscal third quarter.
The latest shipping data hold out little hope for a rapid rebound.
