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USC has found itself in a financial quagmire at an unsettled moment.

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Meanwhile, the war in Iraq came to seem closer to a quagmire than he had predicted.

“I can’t get them to initiate the money. It’s just a quagmire.”

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The quagmire of falsified and lost records for Syria's missing children means surviving mothers and fathers are left to hunt from one institution to the next for any information at all.

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She is simply not interested in the “you always,” “I never” emotional quagmires a gridlocked freeway or rerouting decision can churn up.

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