Every skipper had problems, and it was not the size of the problem that affected performance as much as the timing of the problem, Desjoyeaux said.
He added that the timing of the problems in a new design for the steering box, sourced from an unnamed new supplier introduced by Chinese partner Geely, "could not have been worse with the growth in sales of the Vito".
The timing of these problems in both parents and offspring seems to affect the risk for problems in other family members.
It is the timing of this that is a problem for businesses," he says.
The timing of the Kavanaugh problem comes soon after Facebook revealed it had suffered its largest ever security breach, and the two founders of Instagram departed on less-than-friendly terms.
In an odd way, Interpublic may have benefited from the timing of its problems, which began to emerge in mid-2002.
Daniel Pinkston, north east Asia project director for the International Crisis Group, said the timing of today's problems was interesting given Pyongyang's accusations of US cyber-attacks, and said that there were ongoing concerns about North Korea developing its hacking capabilities.
English-born Mallett, who guided the Springboks to 17 consecutive Test victories in 1997-98 and into the semi-finals of the 1999 Rugby World Cup, said the timing of the vacancy is a problem for him.
In addition to the issue of embryonic hatching time being confounded with the timing of temperature fluctuations, there are other problems that mean that this design is also not an ideal way to address the question.
The timing of the S.E.C.'s growing problems could hardly be worse.
