disastrous

Flores, Sable’s chief executive, wagered that he could patch a leaky pipeline that once caused a disastrous oil spill, ship tens of thousands of barrels of crude to California’s refineries—and earn a windfall.

"It's kind of been disastrous in the last two year," says James Fitzgerald, a London pub landlord bracing for the UK government's November 26 budget.

In years past he was also a fixer for the company, relaunching a failed data syncing service as iCloud, and taking over Apple Maps after its disastrous launch.

Stuck without many options, the Fire Department began slowly thinking about refining the policies that proved disastrous for Australia.

"CITES tried this twice in the past, the last time was particularly disastrous... The last thing we want to do is to go back to that," he told AFP.