As this information vacuum grew, so did Washington's misperceptions and miscalculations — to the point of choosing to launch a costly war.
And once again I saw the international community, particularly the United States, playing the role of enabler, this time giving Meles the backing to launch a costly war against Somalia.
Le Monde made such problems worse with over-staffing and bad business decisions, such as the launch of costly supplements.Arguably, the most important feature of the Le Monde takeover, though, is the political manoeuvring ahead of the 2012 French presidential election.
By last August, E-Loan was running out of cash, burning through $250,000 a month to pay its 150 employees and needing to launch a costly ad blitz.
However, after a fierce skirmish on 14 October in which the strength of the Lines became apparent, the French dug themselves in rather than launch a costly full-scale assault.
The cross-party inquiry launched by Tory MP Amber Rudd comes after a year in which the government has invited anti-abortion group Life onto its sexual health advisory group, cut funding for pregnancy advice groups and launched a costly investigation into abortion clinics which found just 14 guilty of making essentially administrative errors.
In such a scenario, Nato would be left with the options of either choosing defeat - with "predictably disastrous consequences for the Alliance and, not incidentally, the people of the Baltics" - or launching a costly counter attack, which could lead to nuclear escalation.
Liberals fear that shifting the focus of policy away from hunger and physical need would make it even harder to win support for government anti-poverty programs; conservatives fear that adopting a relative-poverty rate would be tantamount to launching another costly war on poverty that the government couldn't hope to win.
Those who support the EFCA stood up to heavy opposition by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which launched a costly barrage of radio ads across the country.
