The most recent example came between October 2007 and March 2009, when many stock markets ended up mired in bear territory amid the global financial crisis.
But if the firm refuses to budge, it could end up mired in a nasty and protracted legal battle in Europe that could leave it well and truly scroogled.
Although a lot of tender care clearly went into the making of "The Rising Place," this misty-eyed Southern nostalgia piece, in treading the line between sappy and sanguine, winds up mired in tear-drenched quicksand.
"News is an activity, a verb, really," Mr. Lehmann, who now works at Bookforum and The Baffler, said, "and we would end up mired in these endless conference calls where you would learn a lot about what buzzwords were gaining currency and very little about how we were going to cover the events of the day".
Most vehicles on the first day wound up mired in mud once a downpour turned the causeway into a quagmire.
Even as China's economy and society become increasingly diverse and sophisticated, its relationship to its own history remains stubbornly mired in cover-ups and silences.
Sandusky's abuses spanned two decades, if not more, and questions of a cover-up mired the images of head coach Joe Paterno and several other university administrators.
Some rescue workers had been mired in mud up to their armpits and had to be dragged to safety, authorities said.
It ended up being mired in the phone hacking saga, which has already cost the media mogul one venerable newspaper, and may yet cost him somewhat more.
Mr Lansley has ended up stubbornly mired in messy amendments, while Number 10, as one former strategist puts it, "was asleep at the wheel" and failed to see a political disaster looming.
