Lehman's long unwinding has only worsened these fears.
The sale Tuesday also was the final step in a long unwinding of a planned merger between Yukos and Sibneft, the company that was renamed Gazprom Neft when Gazprom bought it from the billionaire Roman A. Abramovich in 2005.
In the long unwinding of Scott Boras's life, from California farm boy to the most successful player agent in sports history, one constant has been his deep yearning to play an important role in professional baseball, the world that obsessed him as a young man and later eluded him as a player.
Penny and her cousin Thomas together oversaw the decade-long unwinding of the shared Pritzker family fortune, which included industrial conglomerate Marmon, credit-reporting firm Transunion and other investments.
More generally, the economic and financial imbalances have taken years to build up and may take just as long to unwind.
Together the workers sit around one long counter and unwind over coffee.
When Milly de Cabrol headed to Florida not long ago to unwind from the cruel vexations of life as a New York interior designer, she paid a first-time visit to the newly dynamic district and was startled by what she saw.
"That debt," he observes, "is now a deadweight anchor, we are far from being expunged from its grasp and it will take a long time to unwind".
The deal would go a long way toward unwinding the business holdings of the Pritzkers, a process that started in 2001.
Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff, Sat; Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Mon; Waterfront, Belfast, Tue; SECC, Glasgow, Thu; AECC, Aberdeen, Fri JR Compassionate or otherwise, this quartet jointly led by guitarist Jez Franks and saxophonist Tori Freestone exhibit few dictatorial tendencies in the leisurely ease with which they unwind long-spun melody lines.
Under deregulation, utilities were to use their best efforts to unwind long-term supply contracts, like the one under which Connecticut Light and Power had to buy the steam that the Mid-Connecticut project's incinerator in Hartford produces as it burns trash.
