A decade on, a new New Orleans is slowly emerging after years of painstaking planning and effort.
"While the formation flight looked effortless on film, painstaking planning and meticulous collaboration with an intense focus on safety drove all efforts".
But MI6 insiders have long said that the fictional life of 007 was a far cry from the gritty realities: the painstaking planning, the watching and waiting, and the hardscrabble locations, as well as the adrenaline highs.
For a White House and a re-election campaign that is known for its painstaking planning and strategic thinking, the rollout of Mr. Obama's position on same-sex marriage came swiftly, particularly on a topic so fraught with political peril.
— During five years of psychotherapy at a treatment center here for sex offenders who have finished their prison terms, Bill Price, a pedophile who admits to 21 victims as young as 3, has constructed a painstaking plan for staying straight.
For all of its computer simulations and painstaking planning, the Department of Defense has never undertaken a systemic evaluation to determine whether its efforts to spare lives succeed or fail -- or what might be done to improve them.
The purpose of the several-hour presentation by Hewlett-Packard's management team was to give wavering investors a detailed explanation of the strategy, the financial logic and the painstaking planning behind the Compaq merger.
In an interview Thursday, Mr. Castro-Wright said Wal-Mart's strong performance over the holiday season — capped by a 2.7percentt increase in same-store sales in December, including Sam's Club stores, in a month when its rivals' sales plunged — was a result of painstaking planning.
What excites policymakers and development practitioners is that if we can mine these datasets we could suddenly have a whole range of information about people that previously would only have been available with months of painstaking planning, travelling and surveying, or, as is often the case in the poorest countries, not at all.
