In May the commission acknowledged that it had underestimated the project's complexity and that negotiations with private contractors have stalled.

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The return should reflect such risk factors as the project's technical complexity, the agency's management capacity, the likelihood of cost overruns, and the consequences of under- or non-performance.

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"It was a pilot project and that was part of the complexity of it, " says Nancy Easterbrook, who spearheaded the Kittiwake project on behalf of the Cayman Islands Tourism Association.

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The complexity of the Vista project has created its own management challenges.

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After seeing some of the facilities being used to build our nation's next-generation spacecraft, we were awed by the sheer scope and complexity of the Orion project.

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One reason is the project's sheer scale and complexity.

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From the outset, however, the scope, complexity, and administration of the project were daunting and probably foreshadowed its increasingly troubled track-record.

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The project was beset by problems, mainly because, he admits, he'd underestimated its complexity.

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