Amazon recently announced a mess of new Echo devices and among the lot are several small, diminutive add-ons.
Robin Hood's brand of wealth redistribution could help turn around the fortunes of Liberia, where the education system was recently described as a "mess" by its president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
A devout Muslim, he says he went to Afghanistan to do charitable work to honor the memory of his father — and that he then left Afghanistan for Pakistan because, as one of his lawyers, Robert Palmer, put it to me recently, "the place was a mess".
The group's director recently acknowledged that it was "a mess," though he noted that he believed its poor fiscal condition stemmed from sloppy record keeping rather than misconduct.
Mr. Sewell, who puts together about 50 seatbacks a day in a work station with four other people, remembered how the plant was a mess as recently as five years ago, with parts all over the factory floor and people on their hands and knees.
"The zoning code's a mess," said Douglas Durst, who recently built a 48-story skyscraper in Times Square.
The current president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, recently admitted that the education system was "in a mess" and in need of reform.
A mess of youth, sexuality and love which, until recently, youth, sexuality and love always were.
More recently the Tufts University philosopher Daniel C. Dennett declared the state of thinking on animal consciousness a "mess".
"That whole Arab Spring business has been a mess, right from the start," said a senior American diplomat recently.
