Now a dozen other chief executives are scrabbling about looking for appropriate suitors.
Mr Wolfensohn first yelled at his staff for landing him in this mess, and is now scrabbling for a face-saving compromise.
The cat was so frightened it was scrabbling at the radiator.
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But scrabbling around in a miniature maze can disconcert only a little when the polished wood floors of the gallery are but a few steps away.
Fearful of being left out when the things in which they invest are actually going up, they have been scrabbling to get back into the market.
Universities will scream, scrabbling as they are for foreign students.
"With the flat cells, their middle legs are scrabbling continuously, so they keep their wings moving to maintain their balance, which is a lot less energy-efficient, " Dr Glover continued.
Mountain bikes designed for scrabbling along goat tracks or the heart of forests are as superfluous and unsuitable for our purposes as gigantic 4x4 off-road SUVs are on the school run.
You don't have to squint too hard to picture a 10-year-old Myhrvold scrabbling for fossils in the canyons of the Santa Monica, Calif. mountains, his bored mother waiting helplessly on the hillside.
However, this appears to have been contradicted by reports of sometimes poorly-equipped volunteers scrabbling through the rubble and the apparent starting of a fire by people trying to cut their way through the building.
For a start, you can see a real need being met - who hasn't been part of that scrabbling around for cash when you sort out a restaurant bill or try to pay a window cleaner?
They were left "scrabbling" around to try and find a "smoking gun" in a short period of time, he said, while the UK and US had never "recovered" from the fact that no WMD were found after the invasion.
During the summer many people were rescued after getting cut off by the tide and activities such as coasteering - swimming, jumping and scrabbling around sections of coastlines - saw Brixham Coastguard called out to a variety of incidents.
Outsiders, watching the interview, might also quibble with Mr Trichet's claim, that it was "entirely normal" for 17 of the richest countries in the world to be scrabbling around for ways to turn 440bn euros into one trillion euros - which do not actually involve spending any money.
In both industries, though, scrabbling frantically for retail sales will fail when the consumers know they can rent (or, dare I say, pirate) the product elsewhere and the appearance of bullying consumers into buying at hardcover prices is highly unlikely to give readers a sense of compassion for beleaguered publishers.
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