The economy is buoyant, the country has joined Europe's single currency, a lasting peace in the long-turbulent Basque country is in prospect, and the opposition, lacking a plausible new leader of its own, is in a mess.
Genzyme is in play after a manufacturing mess at its Allston, Mass plant that has resulted in a shortage of key drugs.
So far Guinea has escaped much criticism of domestic repression, partly because its neighbours are in such a mess.
Perhaps Mr Murdoch will make a mess of the Wall Street Journal by undermining its editorial independence though surely he is too shrewd a businessman to mess with so valuable a brand.
Until Japan can show real progress in clearing up its banking mess, and until a slowdown in the American economy becomes apparent, the yen will weaken further.
The evening shift may leave a muddle behind for the night shift to sort out, and the night shift may get its own back by bequeathing a worse mess for the day shift.
European leaders are meeting to discuss whether Italy will soon need a bailout, shocking traders who thought the whole euro mess was fixed when Greece secured its second bailout a few days ago.
Certainly, Portugal exploited and neglected its colony, and left it in a mess in 1975.
Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan said Labour would vote in favour of the principle of the bill, even though its details were a "bit of a mess".
In its current form, Zynga is a struggling mess.
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As they put it, the student loan system, is a mess because, at its current rate, aggregate student debt is doubling every seven years (and growing much faster than other forms of debt which traditionally dwarfed student loans), student loan default rates are rising, and a large portion of student borrowers is in poor financial shape, even after graduating from college.
My dictionary was now a tattered, sorry mess, its spine broken, its coffee-stained leaves creased and torn.
On the call, Dimon said the bank could restart buybacks as soon as the fourth quarter, once its board is satisfied with its review of the CIO mess and resubmits a repurchase plan to the Federal Reserve.
Among the many things that surprised Michael Jordan when he arrived at troubled tech giant EDS last year was a deep and puzzling irony: EDS invented the business of outsourcing, overhauling other firms' computer systems and running them far more efficiently, yet its own internal network was a haphazard and disjointed mess.
The NFL, meanwhile, has a self-inflicted mess, as its players and fan base urge it to settle with its real officials.
Delinquent borrowers need to have more options, not necessarily to be treated better or worse, but shown a way out of the mess to help yield the cleanest separation, therefore the property keeps its value and the customer has a way out.
PA. But Fatah was by then in such a mess that it could not even unify its lists of candidates.
Ten years ago this creek was a mess, choked with silt and overflowing its undefined banks, a casualty of careless grazing.
The stress in Europe is having a negative impact on global markets, but also threatens to make a mess of corporate earnings season thanks to its contribution to slowing growth around the world.
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New management inherits quite a mess from Mr. Pandit and will have its hands full trying to turn around the bank.
Dr Gwinn, however, likens this mess to a novel that has had all its pages torn out and reassembled in a different order.
America has enough on its military and diplomatic plate, without allowing a situation like the Georgia mess to spin out of control, due to a combination of sloppy thinking, inattention, lack of focus and mindless preoccupations.
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Dimon has maintained that he does not expect to cut the dividend as a result of the mess, but JPMorgan did suspend its share buybacks and may keep them off the table for the remainder of the year.
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Escaping from a mess is never easy, as the government has found to its cost with the Child Support Agency.
Prior to that, McDonald's was in a mess following the mad cow crisis, along with criticism of its unhealthy menu.
This potential flood of sensors could lead to a mess of data, with each piece of information tracked in its own app.
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