Many borrowers face "stumbling blocks, snags and surprises" when it comes to payment processing practices, Mr. Chopra said in a telephone call with reporters.
"What's the use of being able to read about it if you can't go listen to it?" Aspiring jazz musicians face stumbling blocks from the beginning of music school, where there are practically no teachers with jazz backgrounds, said Zhang Longyun, a saxophonist who graduated from the Central Academy of Music and has a day job selling antique furniture.
Rohit Chopra, the assistant director and student loan ombudsman for the CFPB, said last year that payment-processing systems for student loans are "opaque" and that many consumers face "stumbling blocks, snags and surprises" when they try to ensure their payments are being properly applied to their loans.
He did not offer a scenario of tourists with fried faces stumbling down 45th Street, clutching their scorched lungs.
A day will dawn when a section of readers might miss the experience of walking into a corner bookstore, recognizing a few faces, stumbling upon an unexpected book, long for the civility of a conversation outside a bookstore, crave for a bookseller whose approving smile on the purchase of a copy of Man Without Qualities could be the beginning of a beautiful literary friendship.
But if the Liberal Democrats seemed likely to balk at any pact with the Conservatives without movement on the voting system, they faced a stumbling block of potentially even greater magnitude in establishing a coalition government with Labour and its widely unpopular leader, Mr. Brown.
Although the results of preclinical studies have been promising, clinical studies have faced several stumbling blocks in their efforts to demonstrate their usefulness in common cancers.
The other exception is a "gotcha" question or statement that leaves the put upon candidate red-faced, stumbling, fumbling and stewing to come up with an answer.
A man who was slapped in the face stumbled into Dixon, then pulled out a handgun and started shooting in the direction of his attacker.
But its plans face a stumbling block in Washington.
