The origins of the current diplomatic morass are relatively simple.

Mr. Newman has little choice, they said, other than to count on Bankers Trust's strength in specialized finance to pull it out of its current morass.

Mr. Tsvangirai said that his party was ready for unconditional talks with the ruling Zanu-PF but that a new election was the only way out of the current morass.

Republicans have pledged to reject any new taxes, saying that the Democratic governor and Legislature spent their way into the current morass and must find program cuts to claw their way out.

The Senate should approve the bill, which would replace the current morass of asbestos litigation with a $140 billion fund to pay the claims of victims of asbestos exposure.

It would replace the current morass with just two categories of courts statewide.

There is still some chance, however, that we can pull ourselves out of the current morass.

Splitting responsibility is what has led to the current political-moral morass wherein no one seems responsible for anything.

Lorraine B. Diehl, who wrote "The Late, Great Pennsylvania Station" 21 years ago, said she hoped an architectural phoenix could emerge from the current political morass.

Only by subjecting himself willingly to the judgment of elected representatives will he extricate himself from the current morass.