Instead of creating an independent truth commission, Mr. Fox entrusted the matter to the country's creaky and corrupt judicial system.

Not only was the creaky system going to be repaired and restructured, its key facilities were going to be reinforced to guard against terrorism.

The crisis has revealed the extent of the banks' decade-long lending binge and exposed eye-watering levels of debt, as well as a startlingly creaky financial system.

Though Japan's creaky legal system rarely rules against the government, more companies and citizens are taking their grievances against the bureaucrats to court.

Japan's creaky financial system narrowly avoided a meltdown in the last fiscal year, which ended March 31.

We are so busy jumping through moving hoops that keeping up with this creaky system it is a full time job.

It may be that Mr. Armanini's case is singular only because it was dealt with relatively swiftly by Italy's notoriously creaky judicial system.

These examples demonstrate how creaky the whole system of subsidies has become. We clearly need to reform the whole CAP.

On election days, the burdens of poverty and corruption and of a creaky economic system are put aside, and India celebrates.

But it's a creaky, old system (especially in places like New York City, where turn-of-the-century tenements have copper dating from the 1920's).