Word: morass
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Some critics have considered the symbolic protest embodied in Campaign GM and other proxy fights to be a futile and clumsy type or melodrama. The guidelines can become a hopeless morass, as they did last year at Princeton. The Malkiel Report tried to evaluate the school's investments in companies operating in South Africa. This Princeton effort illustrates the complexity of drawing up moral criteria to judge the different ranges of financial involvement in South Africa. Directly or indirectly, the committee found, almost every company in the portfolio was contaminated-companies which had affiliates or subsidiaries operating in South Africa...
Unexpectedly, however, the ultimate fate of this year's exchange is still in limbo because the overriding issue-merger-is presently bogged down in a severe morass...
...Vietnam is not, as many of its liberal critics would have it, a "quagmire." It is not a "morass." Americans are fond of viewing Asian wars as vast, unintelligible struggles involving numberless hordes of small, identical, machine-like fanatics. This view explains in a comforting way why the Vietnamese have been able to mount such an incredibly strong and tenacious resistance to American domination in South Vietnam...
...novel) schematically recounts the evolution of the central character, the hypothetical A. (Jon Voight) through all the leftist possibilities in some indefinite (through modern) place and time, (hypothetically) "somewhere in the free world," from liberal protest to bomb-hurling, as he half drifts, half-extracts himself from the morass of liberal mystification...
...some legislators-caused worry among the legislators. New federal directives to the local CAP's encouraged "maximum feasible participation" in the implementation of projects rather than in the planning stages. Any hope for success of the CAP throughout the country was buried by these new guidelines. The bureaucratic morass created in various local agencies, a general mismanagement of funds by the executives of the OEO, a lack of sensitivity of the community organizers to the principles of real organization-all of these factors which merely debilitated the CAP before the 1967 directive seemed trivial in comparison to the change...