However, this project was too ambitious and never managed to get off the ground.

Yet a look backward to earlier hard times shows that many troubled projects have managed to survive and prosper.

This project was conceptualized and project managed by undergraduate students across India.

At its height in 1994, the project had a staff of 20 and managed or owned 23 buildings.

The project managed a few of Harlem's most notorious buildings, rife with drug dealing and violence.

ADM uses projects to manage the development of new roads.

A second project, started in 1849, managed to cut a path usable by canoe, but not viable for commerce.

Only the last project managed to get off the drawing table, and then only the foundations were built before it, too, was abandoned.

This year, however, one project managed to overcome such rigidness: Galileo.

By bringing education to them, the project has managed to get 1.4 million children back into school.