Word: mired
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Both the Afro-Am Department and the Dining Services seemed to have been bogged down in the institutional and structural mire of the status quo. Both have restrictive structures--the tenure system and the repetitive and all-encompassing meal plan--which were effectively prohibiting any sort of substantial change...
...story worth $40 million of somebody's money and 77 min. of your time? Not the way Oliver Stone's tells it, as a display of pop fame's wretched excess. That was evident back in the '60s; 1991 is no time to wallow in the mire...
...money (that's $10 million a Door!) and 2 hr. 15 min. of your time on a proposition -- some guys can't handle fame -- that was evident two decades ago. Maybe it was fun to bathe in decadence back then. But this is no time to wallow in that mire...
...surrender to an RPV, turning round and round, waving their arms as the pilotless drone circled above. An Iraqi tank and another armored vehicle bore down on a U.S. Humvee driven by a lone soldier and stuck helplessly in mud. The Iraqi vehicles pulled the Humvee out of the mire; then their crews surrendered to its driver...
CAPTION: STUCK IN THE MIRE...