Yet the article sent White House aides and other Democrats scrambling to avoid the appearance of special treatment.
Suddenly all the world's leading teams will be scrambling to avoid the revitalised hosts, rather than the other way round.
The business failed in 2009, the children filed for bankruptcy and their elders are now scrambling to avoid the same fate.
Unable to exercise choice on the euro, defensive in the negotiations on the constitution, scrambling to avoid the worst in Europe's nascent defence plans.
Current and former Bush officials are now scrambling to avoid the opprobrium - not to mention the risk of prison time - that would result from criminal prosecution.
Spain has been hit especially hard by a slump in home prices, and is scrambling to avoid the fate of Greece, where a ballooning budget deficit has raised concerns about the government defaulting on its bonds.
This may be Dutch for a six-pointer, though there are so many clubs scrambling to avoid the drop from League One that the English, too, is double Dutch.
But clearly Boeing would like to do more sub-contracting and do sub-contracting andes to its prodoction sotes and workers.Both Gary Locke, the state's governor, and Paul Schell, Seattle's mayor, are already scrambling to avoid the tag "the man who lost Boeing".
Quenneville, the most successful coach in Blues history and the N.H.L.'s coach of the year for the 1999-2000 season, was let go as the Blues scrambled to avoid missing the playoffs for the first time in 25 years.
The coming of the second world war hurled their lives into further chaos, as they scrambled to avoid first the Nazis and then the Red Army.Ms Chamberlain's book is more than an elegy on the theme of exile.
