Work should have been done to make it the jewel in the crown it should be.
Flynn has polished Welsh football's playing gems and Giggs would be the jewel in the crown.
More important, he is offering to build a factory in Botswana, the jewel in the crown of De Beers's empire.
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Granada Television's classic 1980s dramas Brideshead Revisited and The Jewel in the Crown spread out over 11 and 13 hours respectively.
The BBC's Steve Kingstone, in Washington, says healthcare reform is so far the legislative jewel in the crown of President Obama's administration.
"The new keyboard is the jewel in the crown and Blackberry has mastered the experience, " said Francisco Jeronimo, European mobile devices research manager at IDC.
"We're slowly getting there and this event really is the jewel in the crown, " Lineen, who must also take on Toulouse and Bath, told BBC Sport.
Bank of America has now threatened ABN with legal action if it pulls out of that sale, but LaSalle is the jewel in the crown that RBS most covets.
The jewel in the crown of the burgeoning biotech industry is the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, which is developing into a research institute of national importance, especially in the field of immunology.
With its wide range of artists, Parlophone had been described as the "jewel in the crown" of EMI.
The jewel in the Lavaux crown, though, is the stunningly pretty Saint-Saphorin which lies 15km southeast of Lausanne.
The same security is in place at the Topkapi Palace, the jewel in the city's crown and its top tourist attraction.
And it's too soon to count the jelly beans in the tax cut package that Speaker Gingrich calls the "crown jewel" in his basket of legislation.
Malaysian Tourism officials are counting on the bold resort development to be the jewel in their tourism crown rather than an international embarrassment.
But the biggest blow to BAA's future is the implacable opposition of the Conservative Party to its plans for expanding Heathrow, the jewel in BAA's crown.
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Iron Man remains the crown jewel in the elaborate ornament that is The Avengers, and the pieces are falling into place again.
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The judges described it as an "overlooked jewel" in the BBC's crown.
The avalanche of petrodollars may sound frightening, but the Kuwaiti Investment Office remembers well the pressure from Margaret Thatcher's government to reduce its 22% stake in BP, the oil jewel in Britain's crown.
This morning, Pfizer, the world's largest drug maker, posted earnings and sales that fell far short of the predictions of Wall Street analysts as cholesterol drug Lipitor, the company's crown jewel and the top-selling medicine in the world, lost ground to cheaper generic rivals.
Jim Barksdale , who tarnished the jewel in the Valley's crown, Netscape .
With their departure, Windermere will once again start to be that jewel in the crown of the Lake District.
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Leighton has been run at arm's length and Hochtief argues that ACS's bid is really aimed at acquiring Leighton as the jewel in its crown.
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"It's very disappointing as the Abbey quarter should be a jewel in Reading's crown, " he said of the funding refusal.
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Glacier Girl, a P-38 Lightning dug up from under the ice in Greenland, is the crown jewel of Rod Lewis' warbird fleet.
Daimler already controls the crown jewel in Mitsubishi's empire, its Fuso commercial truck business.
But liberals see universal health coverage as the crown jewel in a completed social safety net, one that was well worth spending time and political capital on.
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The avalanche of petrodollars may sound frightening, but the Kuwaiti Investment Office remembers well the pressure from Margaret Thatcher's government to reduce its 22% stake in BP (nyse: BP - news - people ), the oil jewel in Britain's crown.
On the other hand, I also gather that the Bancroft family, which is the single largest private shareholder in the Wall Street Journal and the Dow Jones company, is reluctant to see its crown jewel possession, the Wall Street Journal, fall into the hands of, well, the same guy who owns the Fox News Channel.
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