Kashagan has been a classic case of what can go wrong when you have too many cooks in the kitchen.

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Or perhaps, given the multiple research assistants she apparently has at her disposal, it was simply a matter of too many cooks spoiling the broth.

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They appeared to be "arriving a bit late in the day and too many cooks, literally and metaphorically, may spoil what remains of the broth", he said.

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Despite delays on Tuesday and Wednesday, when it looked like there were too many cooks in the kitchen, today BP (and its government minders) fixed a leaky valve then moved on with their test of the containment cap.

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There are also a few first-time releases, like a dance track called Charmed Life, as well as "Too Many Cooks (Spoil the Soup), " a soul tune from a late-night session put together by John Lennon in 1973.

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"Too many cooks, " he says.

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