The risk remains, however, that Congress will fail to reach a deal in time, piling immediate, chaotic spending cuts of about 44% on top of the current malaise.
The privately-held Napster, by being tied up in litigation, may even have been able to avoid the chaotic spending on sales and marketing that doomed so many of its peers.
To get away from the chaotic spend vs. slash cycle, a number of practical solutions can be put in place.
At first glance it's difficult to see why - it's a tad chaotic - but spend some time clicking through the hundreds of links on his site and you're guaranteed to find something interesting, usually adorned with Snow's creative fingerprints somewhere or other.
Since the mid-1990s, a few local politicians have made valiant efforts to tidy up Berlin's chaotic accounts, cutting public spending, axing city-government jobs (down by a third since 1995) and selling property.
After a chaotic childhood, when she spent some time in foster care, she now lives with her father.
She spent the chaotic days of unrest searching for the mothers of demonstrators who'd been killed, in an effort to record their stories.
A dozen clinic employees, who spend intense, chaotic days treating an unending stream of Louisville's poor and uninsured, stared stonily at handouts he had brought as he made his pitch.
"I think the real history of Lewis and Clark will be written not by academics, but by thousands of people who live along the route and say, 'Hey, wait a minute,' " said Mr. Ziak, who has just published a book, "In Full View" (Moffitt House Press), on the cold and chaotic November that Lewis and Clark spent on the lower Columbia before building a fort.
I spent five chaotic days in Brazil, in support of the "GREAT Britain" Campaign.
Juliet, 33, American Juliet lives with her family outside New York City and spends happy, chaotic days raising three children under 5 years old.
