1.   In messy states, levers get pulled but they come off in your hand.

2.   Indeed, we are going to have to retrain U.S. diplomats to deal with messy states.

3.   One wonders how Al Gore or George W. Bush proposes to deal with messy states, because this is not a phase.

4.   The first course would consist of film of a U.S. ambassador going to see a senior official of a messy state and asking him to do X.

5.   The official of the messy state agrees, gets up and pulls the lever the U.S. ambassador wants, and the lever comes right off the wall.

6.   Their haphazard, and sometimes uninspired, play reflected the messy state of affairs and they failed to make the playoffs during that time.