Now Mr. Sullivan, who kept a low profile in the best of times -- when he and several other WorldCom insiders took home tens of millions of dollars from stock sales -- has dropped from public view, leaving a deepening mystery about his actions and motivations.
Like Ms. Mallosi, an increasing number of young college graduates are leaving Greece as a deepening recession chokes a job market already crippled by an entrenched culture of cronyism.
They squandered the "golden hour" of reconstruction when the patient could be helped most, and left themselves floundering in a deepening civil war.
All this leaves Mr Obama in a deepening quandary.
Calculations by Dresdner Kleinwort Benson suggest that a 10% fall in the yen will boost GDP by 1.7% by 1999 roughly the same amount as the fiscal package itself.Unfortunately, this has to fill a deepening hole left by the slump in exports to the rest of Asia.
Six months ago she left Russia for Canada, amid a deepening conflict between her husband, Vladislav Moskalev, and a partner in a film that would have told the story of the ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska, who was the lover of the future Nicholas II, Russia's last czar.
Parliament voted to dismiss the country's Western-leaning foreign minister, Boris I. Tarasyuk, left, deepening a constitutional crisis as it was unclear whether the chamber had authority to do so.
Everyone knows that George W. Bush left a mess in Afghanistan, but escalation only deepens our involvement in a quagmire," the email reads.
If an inner core of leaders "caucus" together and stitch up deals on the single market or financial services, Britain could be left seething with impotent frustration.Then add a deepening of the crisis in the euro zone.
The league wins again, and fans are left to find their way out of a deepening moral and ethical quandary.
