And then there are the problems that existed before Sept. 11: the firefighters are working without a contract; some firehouses badly need paint jobs and other repairs; the city is in a fiscal morass.
The report, by the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers University, says the public transit agency, the nation's third largest, is in a "financial morass," saddled with a growing operating deficit that threatens its ability to meet future needs -- particularly as ridership soars in the aftermath of the terror attacks.
"Excite is in an operating morass and Patti is a superb operator," said Leo Hindery Jr., former chief executive of Tele-Communications Inc. and its successor, AT&T Broadband.
Meanwhile, a Pakistan that is crucial to our finding our way out of that morass is in a disarray aggravated, if not entirely caused, by ham-handed American interventions in yet another Islamic country averse to our dictation.
But he also acknowledged: "Fashion is drowning in a morass of fashion imagery.
The nation is mired in a morass of intertwined environmental problems.
And it is in this morass of enablement, avoidance and appeasement that many male VCs learn there is no consequence to their harassing behavior.
This tradition has been buried in a morass of meetings and messages.
Still, "Chaos in Belleville" is a morass of cliché and stereotype, and the director, played by Kevin O'Rourke, is too obtuse to pay attention when Wiletta, the play's black star, finally decides to bite the bullet and state her objections.
The Russian saga is now a morass.
