Word: floundering
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...there. An institution which says it realizes its problem with securing young teaching talent and then uniformly alienates and dismisses its junior faculty. An institution which rightly supports a policy of diverse admissions but then leaves the really "diverse" students, who aren't prepared for Harvard, to flounder without the aid of a decent advising system. An institution which decides to provide cheap power to its affiliated hospitals and Medical Schools and then builds a power plant with the alleged potential to injure more people than those doctors-to-be and the hospitals could ever handle...
Ponder also warned that any Third World center will flounder without intense student participation. "Given the obstacles any center faces to begin with, it is much easier to take it away than to make it stay if students don't participate heavily. That's the major problem...
...Corporation comes to the aid of ailing University budgets because all University departments function as financially separate units-one may do very well while others may flounder, Barry said...
AFTER TWO WEEKS of allowing the so-called Billygate affair to flounder about in public out of control (much in the fashion of his administration), President Carter has finally taken steps to halt the onslaught of conflicting information and contradictory statements, not to mention cretinous comments from his brother, that have disheartened many already disenchanted Democrats and rallied rambunctious Republicans...
...meet unfolded, it became evident that while Tennessee would not flounder, the other schools would not allow slower entry times to submerge them. Of the top five finishers, only Tennessee failed to increase its hypothetical pre-meet totals. Both USC and Cal improved by over 100 points...