Katrina is going to muck things up; it's just a question to what degree.

It's a question of degree,

Every good newspaper is muckraking to some degree. It's part of our job. Where there's muck, we ought to rake it.

The degree of your cry to God to a question mark in your life is determined by the degree of how such question has consumed you

The biggest culprits in the housing fiasco came from the private sector, and more specifically from a mortgage industry that was out of control.

In a forbearance, the homeowner pays interest and principal on a smaller mortgage, at least for a time, but still owes the full amount. The lower monthly payment helps with affordability, giving stressed homeowners a break.