United States officials attending the annual meeting, the Strategic and Economic Dialogue, were clearly eager to report some good news from China amid a furor over mishandled efforts by the United States to assist a leading Chinese dissident, Chen Guangcheng.
The failed purchase reflects the difficulties and, some critics said, the sometimes mishandled efforts by the county to convert more than $100 million approved by voters into actual land protection.
The two most memorably atrocious hostage-takings — at a theater in Moscow and a school in Beslan, in southern Russia — ended in lethally mishandled rescue efforts, and these tragedies are attended by suspicious twists that have been amplified by the Kremlin's habitual secrecy.
Mr. Lombard has been the target of criticism that he mishandled Starbucks's effort to expand on its early roots as a purveyor of jazz records and custom compilations.
And the party itself was widely blamed for mishandling relief efforts after a horrific cyclone last year that devastated the region and killed 9,500 people.
Many Burmese believe the regime grossly mishandled the immediate relief effort.
The office is being formed when some critics in Congress have accused the Bush Administration of mishandling the bailout effort and of not moving fast enough to prosecute executives of failed institutions who may have violated criminal laws.
Hundreds of people who lost livestock and homes, farms and other property crowded into banks in southern Greece to receive up to $17,732 per family in aid promised by the conservative government, which has been criticized as mishandling the firefighting effort.
Industry executives said that any of these items could, if mishandled, torpedo a company's international efforts.
If mishandled, especially by rushing to construct unproven missile defenses, the effort could lead the nation into a new arms race with Russia and China.
According to The Advocate, San Francisco Pride's new board president, Gary Virginia, stated that the situation with Manning's nomination last year was "mishandled" and she is being given the title in an effort to "repair a rift the controversy created".
