Quicksand?

Quantitative Quicksand

Yelps Quicksand!

Your arms were quicksand.

Quicksand. He couldn't help it.

I led him into a quicksand.

This is like trying to shovel quicksand.

It's what Myriam Lafrance calls standing in social quicksand.

It's what Marianne LaFrance calls standing in social quicksand.

There ain't no right. It's all bogs and quicksand.

You know, simple words lost in the quicksand of experience.

Otherwise, disputes about fulfillment of this or that provision will lead the entire process back into the familiar quicksand of Middle East futility.

But it's a hard hurdle because we got into this legal quicksand because we woke up in the 1960s to all these really bad values racism, gender discrimination, pollution they were bad values.

Mounting imbalances in the US were the mirror image of those in China a massive shortfall of domestic saving, unprecedented current account deficits, excess debt, and an asset dependent economy that was ultimately built on speculative quicksand.

But it's a hard hurdle because we got into this legal quicksand because we woke up in the 1960s to all these really bad values racism, gender discrimination, pollution they were bad values. And we wanted to create a legal system where no one could have bad values anymore.

Yet a mechanism of this kind can only work if a third party (the US, the US plus, or the Middle East Quartet) is available to monitor the agreement. Otherwise, disputes about fulfillment of this or that provision will lead the entire process back into the familiar quicksand of Middle East futility.