Pastor saw nothing that interested him after command, not in the Navy's bureaucratic quagmire in Washington, not in the shore-training commands, not in the surface navy.

A bureaucratic quagmire created by the Federal Government's gradual deeding of Fort Totten to the city has thwarted efforts to save several historically significant but neglected buildings, preservationists say.

As I travelled the province, I found a bureaucratic quagmire stewing in the ugly built-in racism that is an echo of Canada's colonial past.

Elsewhere, however, attempts to put a stop to the overt racism have mostly ended in bureaucratic quagmires, with "experts" assigned to "study" the legal definition of "political extremism."

Moreover, he called G.M. "a bureaucratic quagmire," where various divisions do not cooperate.

He never wanted to get bogged down in that bureaucratic quagmire again.

It was the idea of campaigner Phil Mottram to form an Ilam Cross Trust, to save the monument from disappearing down a bureaucratic quagmire.

Mr. Bell, who complained then of being caught in a bureaucratic quagmire, said the city's inaction had led him to put his property up for sale in late September.

Ancient cities like Samarkand, Bukhara and Tashkent, free of the bureaucratic quagmire of Homo sovieticus, winked invitingly at adventurous beachcombers.

Whether their ventures fall prey to the same turf wars, bureaucratic quagmires and academic catfights as the site that spawned them remains to be seen.