However the upkeep of Lleweni was ruinously expensive. During that time, he and Fox, like many of their contemporaries, gambled ruinously. The ruinously expensive project, worked on from 1685 to 1690, was never completed. C-W's president, Roy T. Hurley, attempted to cure Studebaker's ruinously lax employment policies. There are cases of people going ruinously into debt to fund their campaigns. With both sides almost evenly matched, it would drag on ruinously for years.