But as with BMW's ill-fated takeover of Britain's Rover in 1994 and General Motors' association with Italy's Fiat, which collapsed earlier this year, the pursuit of global reach is fraught with difficulty.
He was a regular at 12 outside Jones in former Wales coach Gareth Jenkins' ill-fated reign, but the combination rarely clicked and was abandoned after the disastrous World Cup campaign, the now-injured Gavin Henson stepping in.
But it was only in 2008 that the latest ill-fated military-installed government gave way to civilian rule.
But Prof Colin Pillinger, the scientist behind the ill-fated Beagle-2 mission to Mars, said the printer would have to be really precise to be able to fabricate complex parts that usually make up the body of a spacecraft.
But the color film does show Kennedy at the beginning of the ill-fated motorcade.
Mr Quinn claimed to have been left with no alternative but to take the "drastic decision" over problems which stemmed from "ill-fated investments in Anglo".
But it's the characters from De Niro's Jimmy Conway to the ill-fated Billy Batts who fans just can't seem to let go of.
But it's clear they're putting more stock in it than the ill-fated BlackBerry Storm, which hit an iPhone-dominated smartphone market with a resounding thud in 2008.
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Netflix may well be a service provider, but its latest move has retailer written all over it and these higher prices look like an ill fated power play.
On the trade front, Reagan erred with the ill-fated Plaza Accord, along with tariffs on motorcycles among other products, but succeeded in the sense that the calls for more substantial trade barriers in Congress were deafening.
But her rise from obscurity, through a number of unremarkable TV jobs - including Channel 4's ill-fated The Girlie Show and a UK Play gameshow, Flatmates, which she still hosts - to one of the most coveted roles in British radio demonstrates her determination to succeed.
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