Word: morass
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...tough to really get a sense of who he is by what he’s saying, since hundreds of people are milling around and a few dozen of them are also uniformed, wearing the same enthusiasm, and it’s easy to lose one person in the morass...
...banks,' says Richard Jerram, chief economist at ING Barings in Tokyo. 'I guess they were only joking.' Only two weeks ago, Takenaka had convinced the world that it could expect a set of proposals with real heft. But he, like so many before him, got mired in the morass of inertia and self-interest that is Japanese politics. Receiving lukewarm support from his boss Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Takenaka has buckled. At a press briefing last week, Takenaka called his plan 'a good start.' Who says the Japanese have no sense of irony...
...Washington's strategic plate is full. The U.S. faces the task of uprooting al-Qaeda in some 60 countries, and is trying to hold together an Afghanistan subject to enormous centrifugal forces. The Israel-Palestine morass can suck in the U.S. at any moment. There are probably nukes in North Korea. And America is poised to invade Iraq?a country the size of Germany?with no discernible exit plan and little clear idea about how the Muslim world will respond...
...priorities. For example, he tried to minimize the role of the State Department Office of Counterterrorism by attempting to chuck it into the larger Bureau of Narcotics, Terrorism and Crime. This merger would have only diminished the significance of the office, submerging it in a bureaucratic morass and depriving it of the special attention and adequate funding it needed...
...MARRIAGE MORASS...