It was James's most enduring - and troublesome - legacy.

But now, UBS Warburg's drive to become a major force in the energy trading business is facing major hurdles - not just Enron's troublesome legacy, but a drastic contraction in energy trading itself.

It is a troublesome legacy because the homelands, parodies of nations though they were, took on lives of their own in ways that neither the creators nor the critics of apartheid fully anticipated.

MacMillan's book is a detailed and painful record of his failure, and of how we continue to live with his troublesome legacy in the Balkans, the Middle East and elsewhere.

Mr. Levin has not been able to reduce the company's debt enough for Wall Street's satisfaction, nor has he overcome the troublesome legacy he inherited: a corporate structure rife with internal fiefs.

Gutzman, Kevin R. "A troublesome legacy: James Madison and 'The principles of '98'," Journal of the Early Republic, Winter 1995, Vol.

The county's a severe budget shortfall and the criminal investigation into the county's land acquisition program will be a troublesome legacy for the Republican candidate, Edward Romaine, who is now the county clerk.

Dismembered and demoralized, unloved at home and no longer so feared in the West, the Russian armed forces are the most unwieldy and troublesome legacy of the Soviet empire.

Let us hope that this troublesome legacy will not obscure the ambitious aims the presidency has set for itself, which are of real importance for the future of Europe and the world.

Mr. Wilson examined the African-American experience through a wide-angle lens, filling his work with dozens of characters struggling to come to terms with the troublesome legacies of the past.