Word: flounderings
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...stock market, which for years has been crowded with heavy breathers at the merest wisp of a peace rumor, inscrutably chose the session immediately following President Nixon's cease-fire announcement to stage a flounder. The Dow Jones industrial average, the most closely watched barometer, fell 14 points, its largest decline in 18 months. On Friday, the Dow closed at 1,004, off 23 points for the week and down 48 points from its high so far in what was supposed to be a banner year...
Dagdigian, Roth and Hampe collected the last three goals, and a smile crossed Cleary's face when a fan in section 18 threw a flounder onto the ice in jubilation as the game's end neared...
...Queeg's mutinous underlings were when Queeg was fighting--right from WWII's beginning--to prevent his grandmother from being turned into a soap-bar. Bogart is Queeg, the psychotic captain of the U.S.S. Caine, and he's fine: it's fun to watch Fred MacMurray and Van Johnson flounder in his midst...
...audience that the entire criminal-law system, including the number of judges, prosecutors and courtrooms, is built on a shaky premise: "that approximately 90% of defendants will plead guilty, leaving only 10%, more or less, to be tried." As defendants exercise new rights, he said, the system could easily flounder. A reduction in guilty pleas to 80% "requires the assignment of twice the judicial manpower and facilities-judges, court reporters, bailiffs, clerks, jurors and courtrooms. A reduction to 70% trebles this demand...
...International Publishing Corp., once waspishly characterized his protege, Editor Hugh Cudlipp, as "a very good first violin, but never really cast to be a conductor." Nevertheless, when King was deposed in a surprise boardroom revolt in 1968, I.P.C. directors picked Cudlipp as his successor. Ailing I.P.C. continued to flounder, so Cudlipp decided that he ought to turn in his baton and, as he put it, "get out my Stradivarius." Last week the Reed Group, a major British paper manufacturer, received government approval to take over I.P.C. for $304 million in stock and debentures...