It cost £27m: the many elaborate schemes drawn up, lavishly launched and then abandoned, along with serial planning and roads enquiries, have cost many times that.
The social fund piggy bank might have helped them, but it is being smashed this month, and so they will be left squabbling with cash-strapped councils about the cut-price local schemes drawn up in its place.
But more ambitious schemes, drawn up by the summit chair, president Herman Van Rompuy, to move towards a eurozone fiscal and political federation were watered down and delayed amid strong German resistance to any pooling of risk and costs among the currency's 17 countries.
The comparison between the code diversity scheme for r=1 and the two r=0 schemes draws a consistent conclusion as in conventional relay channels.
While the slapstick comedy and quirky color schemes drew me in, another theme I drew personal parallels to won me over entirely: Anxiety.
Finally, in April 2006, the then home secretary Charles Clarke announced further changes to the statutory scheme, drawing comparisons with the often derisory compensation offered to victims of crime.
The scheme, drawing on a £1bn contingency fund set aside in the pre-budget report, will be aimed at those who are unemployed for more than a year.
The Bank of England said net lending in the quarter to December 31 fell by £2.4 billion on the previous quarter, despite participants of the Bank of England's Funding for Lending (FLS) scheme drawing down another £9.5 billion over the period.
On Wednesday, demonstrators gathered outside Marseille's town hall to protest against the scheme, drawing parallels between the yellow triangle displayed on the front of the card and the symbols which some were forced to wear by the Nazis.
Mr. bin Laden quickly supplied Mr. Mohammed with four recruits to carry out the scheme, drawing from the thousands of young men who trained in his camps a few especially ardent followers he had singled out for martyrdom missions.
