His subsequent space fascination led him to involve Blur in the ill-fated Beagle 2 project.
Even so, the city estimates that unwinding the ill-fated project will cost taxpayers about $109 million.
That is indeed Washington's sorry experience in a range of ill-fated projects, from the breeder reactor to synfuels.
Their collaboration floundered over ill-fated projects.
Instead the production, based in Madrid, was one of those ill-fated projects in which everything went wrong, from interpersonal relationships to the weather.
On Tuesday, for the second time in seven months, the board of education canceled a referendum that would have provided more money to complete the ill-fated project.
That ill-fated project was destined to become the only nuclear plant in the nation to be completed but abandoned before it produced power commercially.
It has simply been decided that we've wasted enough of the taxpayer's money on this ill-fated project.
Another ill-fated project appeared in the Quake 3 community shortly thereafter.
He should have protected his actors, even from themselves if they insisted on going ahead with what must have seemed an ill-fated project from the start.