Nor was there any mention of Daewoo's scores of overseas subsidiaries, which are often tangled in complicated business and financial relationships that go far beyond South Korea's banks.

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Character sketches and good anecdotes relieve an often tangled story.

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The Sawirises have been ambitious and quick off the mark, but other Egyptian entrepreneurs too are expanding overseas, using skills honed by dealing with Egypt's often tangled bureaucracy to venture into risky but promising markets.

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The center must dispatch ships to service the buoys, whose mooring lines often get tangled in fishing lines or are severed by collisions with boats.

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But what is clear is that the IWC's tangled and often conveniently forgotten history gives them reasons for real frustration, and the wherewithal to construct faux frustration if they choose.

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Both fighters winged wild shots, and were often thrown off balance and tangled up with one another.

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