Word: enmeshed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mahdi decides to go after him and resume fighting, then there will be a major catastrophe with food getting to the people. Then, the international community faces a very difficult decision of how it will intervene. Will it try it get food to the people -- and enmesh itself in the middle of a brutal civil war -- or will it watch people die of starvation...
...irreducible fact is that an invasion of Haiti would be less a military act than a political one. It would enmesh the U.S. in the governance of a country that, having only briefly experienced democracy, lacks the infrastructure to run an open, civil society. With its shattered economy and widespread unemployment, those institutions could take years, if not decades, to develop. In the end, perhaps the most telling fact is this: when the U.S. invaded Haiti in 1915, it did not leave for 19 years. And the country was brought no closer to a representative democracy...
That they can, and that a play which often seems like a cross between King Lear and a Monty Python episode can somehow enmesh its audience emotionally is a tribute to the exceptional work of the Royal National Theatre's repertory company. The cast is exceptional and Bennett's play makes the most...
...TAPE In a misguided effort to head off waste, fraud and abuse, Congress and the Executive Branch enmesh operating personnel in endless spider webs of rules. Line-item budgets allow no flexibility in shifting money from one use to another. Two areas of one military base boasted well-maintained sidewalks, while in another area, personnel walked in mud because the base commander's budget contained money only for repairing sidewalks, not for building any. Government employees who need to travel must get approvals from many superiors and superiors' superiors, and then often have to deal with a single airline under...