New York City, meanwhile, has its own budget morass.
As JPMorgan Chase works its way through its own legal morass, it can look to Goldman Sachs for an example of how long litigation can haunt a bank.
But, he added, "It's always the case that Lebanon is embroiled in its own political morass, so they need to work through that and get working on developing their hydrocarbon sector".
Until the World Trade Center attack brought the race to a near-standstill, he used a dizzying series of appearances at train stations, supermarkets and festivals to stress his experience as an executive who had guided his city out of its own fiscal morass.
The company lends to both profit-making and nonprofit concerns, large contractors and small landlords, urban turnaround experts and budding entrepreneurs, those who need subsidies to make projects work and those that do not, those who can wend their own way through the morass of government paperwork and those who need the company to handle that.
It is clear that Eastern Europeans, mired in their own decades-long political morasses (not to mention social conservatism) did not understand the lessons that the Austrian performer gave to them in just four minutes.
He said they explored "options and ideas" for helping the state, but added that the administration preferred to see California work its own way out of the morass.
After leaving the Treasury, Rubin became Citigroup's vice chairman, and "over the following decade pocketed more than $100,000,000 as the bank sank deeper and deeper into a risky morass of its own design".
I had covered far too many bombings and fraudulent elections, and heard Arabs themselves complain too often about their own inability to transcend the morass of corruption and thuggery.
