His administration's botched efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina weighed heavily.
He threw out countless botched efforts but kept tracing the shape of his bicycle helmet on sheets of fabric, pinning them, stitching them, stretching them over the salvaged frames.
Should we believe in the cause of liberal democracy – or is it time to shed what many, after so many botched efforts, see as the last, doomed western obsession with remaking the world in its distorting image?
They'll adhere to the Reserve Bank of India's mandate that all online transactions be authorised by two-factor authentication, but do it better than today's botched efforts.
For every idea that succeeds, spawning a Google or a blockbuster biotech drug, legions of botched efforts are discarded along the way, with their outcomes furthering understanding.
After a report in the National Enquirer and some botched efforts at damage control by Deen, the story erupted, sending business partners such as the Food Network and Smithfield Foods fleeing for the hills.
"It was mishandled at virtually every step," said a senior Government official who contributed his share to the botched effort.
It was the cartel's botched effort to manage prices through production cuts that sent oil soaring uncontrollably past $30 a barrel in the first place.
(In one botched effort, a doctor instructs Albert to talk with a mouthful of marbles, a gagging endeavor that might have altered the imminent monarchical succession).
Shares of Satyam, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, have plummeted by about 40percentt since a botched effort two weeks ago to buy two infrastructure companies.
Southern California Edison and PG&E, the state's two largest utilities, have run up huge losses because of California's botched effort to deregulate its power market.
