Word: floundering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Hopeful Flounder Lie flat against the floor and lift yourself with your arms. Arch your back and raise your head to the sky. Cry out for joy, you beautiful bastard—you deserve everything you?...
...younger Bancroft cousins began agitating for more shareholder-friendly management. They've gotten their way, to an extent. For the first time since Hugh Bancroft, the company has a CEO who didn't rise through the reporting and editing ranks. But the stock continued to flounder until Murdoch came along with his hugely attractive offer...
...before they harden into proposals would be a lot more useful—we do, after all, share the space and infrastructure—and would encourage us, Allston residents, to reenter the review process with an open mind. No one wants Harvard’s Allston plans to flounder, but many of us in Allston think it’s a shame that the University has been so reluctant to follow the collaborative principles it articulated at the outset...
...hard to measure." But then there is Marla Olmstead, a four-year-old artist whom Quart visited, whose dozens of brightly colored abstract oil paintings have brought in $300,000, as well as calls from Oprah and David Letterman. Some prodigies make successful transitions to adult accomplishment, but others flounder as they get older. Gifted children, an intellectual step down from prodigyhood, tend to be identified with high IQ scores. (Quart is quick to say that she herself was not a prodigy...
...When Flounder formally enters office, HRC’s hopes may be realized. Until then, they are busy poring over floor plans of University Hall, designing a logo, and continuing their letter-writing campaign, all from their hidden cave...