Solyndra ceased operations on Aug. 31 after lengthy financial difficulties, and the circumstances of the company's failure are now being scrutinized by Congress, the Energy Department's inspector general and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
After some lengthy technical difficulties, Tchami finally made his way onto the stage and my fanboy dreams of the past year or so became true.
The V&V process can be very lengthy and expensive: difficulty and cost do increase because of the overall system dimension that depends on the number of uncertainties.
Intended to rival the Global Positioning System developed by the United States, Galileo has struggled with money difficulties and lengthy delays after a consortium that was supposed to get the satellite network off the ground failed to agree on financial terms.
Despite technical difficulties and lengthy procedures, results were satisfactory.
Instead of a pithy quote, I received a lengthy lecture on the difficulty of estimating the so-called wealth effect, the perils of drawing conclusions about individuals from aggregate statistics, the lopsided nature of wealth distribution in the United States, and much else besides.
For instance, Dr. Glenmullen offers a lengthy discussion of the difficulty patients may experience in trying to wean themselves from these drugs, even if Eli Lilly, the company that manufactures Prozac, has run ads reading: "Like other antidepressants, it isn't habit-forming".
An offer of bottled water, for instance, unexpectedly turns into a lengthy digression about the difficulty of freezing distilled water and the origins of Gatorade.
Five years in the making, Where The Wild Things Are has been a labour of love for Jonze; the lengthy gestation period included reported difficulties with the film's backers Warner Bros, and at one point it was rumoured that the director might even be taken off the project after clashes over edits of the film.
It was already an lengthy process, beginning with the difficulties of setting up an appointment, she said.
