Word: flounders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University were admitting minorities and allowing them to flounder without making efforts to help them, then these students have cause to feel betrayed...
Because for a lot of people, the nip in the air, the shortening evenings and the fading leaves on the ground glare like warning sign of things to come. Nature drives you indoors, and for the most part John Q. Public can only flounder helplessly in front of his television and his fireplace...
Genetically engineered foods can be as exotic as tomatoes with flounder genes, corn with firefly genes or potatoes with wax moth genes...
...also have now been tainted by scandal and are distinguished across the land only by the weight loss of their skipper. (Their apparent recipe for success: delicious shakes for breakfast and lunch and a sensible meal for dinner.) The Angels bought two division titles in the 1980s but now flounder, dull and colorless...
...root, the problem is not personalities but ideas. Even the most skilled statesman would flounder if lashed to the central idea of the Clinton foreign policy: that in the post-cold war era the U.S. can shed its arduous international responsibilities by transferring them to the U.N. or sundry other multilateral constructions. The subordination of America to the will of "the allies," or the U.N. Secretary-General, or the even vaguer notion of the "international community" provides a convenient alibi for failure. But it is also a near guarantee of failure and a source of endless, needless humbling...