A film, more than 20 years in the making, that's been stalled by vanishing funds, flash floods and disease.
While this incident was on a much larger scale, the vanishing funds echoed an earlier snafu in 2006, when Arthur Akuien Chol, the provisional government's finance minister, was dismissed after being accused of mishandling a $60 million grant from Sudan to establish basic civil functions.
You, unlike Andrew Luck, face fiercer competition than the NFL, fewer jobs than the NFL, and vanishing funding for the jobs still available.
As MF Global teetered on the brink of collapse, employees in Chicago transferred customer money to plug holes in the firm's own accounts, causing a shortfall for clients like hedge funds and farmers whose funds vanished into banks and clearinghouses.
More than two months after the funds vanished from client accounts at MF Global, customers have questioned why investigators still have not retrieved all of their money.
IG Group will unveil its annual results on Tuesday and a week ago most watchers were expecting two things: first, the usual decent performance (last month's trading update suggested a 17% rise in revenues); and second, the odd inconvenient question about collateral damage from scandals at rivals MF Global and Worldspreads, where client funds vanished.
But what if some irrevocable schism forced the US government's hand, and the funds vanished tomorrow and never came back?
Making research more efficient and focused on real world applications is not going to fix the problem of vanishing government funding.
Soon afterward, Senator Joseph McCarthy made a vicious attack on several members of the group, and its funding vanished.
But the effort to get planning permission foundered against opposition from bewildered churches, community groups and city councils, and funding vanished when the scheme was almost through planning.
