Legislators, many of them accompanied by burly bodyguards, negotiated furiously about a future federal government, one result of a half-finished revolution that was bogging down in legal wrangling and political bargaining.
The award offered a brief respite for a people, and a nation, that are bogged down in a protracted standoff that Ms. Karman helped to start.
The only remaining obstacle is the House, where a similar measure is attached to a water resources bill that is bogged down in unrelated partisan disputes.
He worried, he told me, that religious conservatives and others might "seize on it as a violation of the right to life," thus turning transplant into another medical practice — like abortion or fetal stem-cell research — that's bogged down in intractable political wrangling.
It is Porsche Holding that is bogged down by 9.0 billion euros ($11.8 billion) of debt, which it only recently managed to re-finance by the skin of its teeth.
Sometimes it's the company culture itself that is bogged down by a deficiency and/or weakness that training could address.
Anything is possible, and that is why we need to change the national dialog now from one that is bogged down in pessimism to one in which we discuss how we make the most of the amazing opportunities ahead.
James Benson, founder and chairman of SpaceDev, a $3.4 million (2002 sales) maker of "affordable" microsatellites, rockets and other space paraphernalia, says he is "trying to bring the microcomputer way of thinking to a space industry that is bogged down in a mainframe, bigger-is-better way of thinking".
But even beyond his show-stealing charisma, there's a lightness to those first films vs the sheer financial weight of the Star Wars brand now where teams of people necessarily have to be involved in making strategic decisions about a staggeringly long-running saga that's bogged down by its own chequered history and the need to carry fans that cut across generations.
With a pedigree consisting of both finance and machine learning experience, Cross hopes to best legacy players like Oracle and Lexus Nexus that rely on outdated technology while getting the jump on newer entrants like Palantir that are bogged down by clunky consulting operations.
