And Foursquare and Tumblr have floundered in their own ways.
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Starved of foreign financing, Mr Rouhani's modernisation programme has floundered.
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Small caps, with their "buy American" appeal, have also floundered.
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In this respect, too, under Mr Ban it has floundered.
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Plans for the fourth iteration were scrapped after sales floundered.
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They were skiing when his first Obamacare repeal push floundered.
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And when DeVos was asked about those issues, she often floundered.
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For in the twenty-first century, revolutionary movements have consistently floundered.
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Since last year, however, some of SoftBank's biggest investments have floundered.
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And promised investigations into past corruption by successive governments have floundered.
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Uber went public earlier this year, but its stock has floundered.
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Trump floundered around on the birther issue, which many Americans find racist.
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Parker floundered in June and was released, leaving Rogers as the closer.
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Not that immigration was the only issue on which Ms. Nielsen floundered.
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"Rock Around the Clock", a rock'n'roll classic, floundered when it was first released.
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Those bills floundered for months as Graham and Tillis wavered in their support.
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But he floundered badly on the economy as poverty deepened and corruption flourished.
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Cruz followed in 2012, winning a Senate seat as Akin and Mourdock floundered.
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While Davis selected U.C.L.A. and flourished, Brunner chose Georgetown, traveled east and floundered.
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Eventually, his career floundered and he lost everything, leading to a suicide attempt.
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He noted that similar schemes had floundered in the past for several reasons.
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And it has usually been one of the reasons those efforts have floundered.
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Thrust into a marquee race in a purple state, however, Mr. DeSantis floundered.
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Blacklists targeting criminals and dissidents floundered at the task of monitoring entire populations.
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But instead, he said he has struggled to stay afloat while others floundered.
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Some progressives did well and others floundered; some moderates triumphed and others perished.
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In Zimbabwe, party-owned firms have visibly floundered owing to unchecked corruption and mismanagement.
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Despite enjoying support from Republicans, Democrats and the general public, the bills have floundered.
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Shares of FitBit floundered after the bell, despite reporting better-than-expected quarterly earnings.
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The Workers' Party has floundered since Mr. da Silva was imprisoned in April 2018.
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His campaign floundered until the spring of that year, when his fortunes suddenly changed.
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But because he had largely floundered since his striking debut, this breakout was encouraging.
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But as they tried to play around the violence, they floundered on the field.
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Like the Schafers, multiple generations of Native families have floundered in Wolf Point's schools.
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The newsletter business floundered for a while, and required cash infusions from family members.
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Just one season removed from the Western Conference finals, the Rockets floundered for months.
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Uber began trading at $42 per share and has since floundered on the stock market.
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As the broader internet universe has flourished, especially e-commerce peers, eBay's stock has floundered.
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But it has since floundered, its shares falling more than 2130 percent since September 23.89.
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The show, which became even more explicitly gay over time, floundered in its following season.
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Forced to disclose his criminal history on applications, Mr. Marte floundered in the job market.
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Out of his element of "honor and duty," Ned floundered among sneaky, self-serving Southerners.
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Meanwhile, Trinity worked the runway back and forth, whipping her hair around as Charlie floundered.
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He was worse, and the team floundered in its first season back in Los Angeles.
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Also, I fully reject the narrative that Apple has somehow floundered because Jony has been absentee.
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Its share price has doubled since 2016, while that of Wells has floundered (see chart 2).
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Where the 3D Zelda games have floundered ever since Ocarina of Time is in their linearity.
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Camera manufacturers like Jaunt and Lytro have floundered, and production studios like Within have shifted focus.
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That's mirrored the Avalanche themselves, who looked great in 21-260 and have floundered ever since.
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A United Nations-backed political transition soon floundered, in part because the Houthis still felt disenfranchised.
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While corporate titans like Starbucks dominate the market in Bangkok, they've floundered in the northern city.
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Where other groups of their era critically floundered, Beach House steadily progressed, evolving with each record.
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He never graduated from college, and he floundered in his attempt at running the family business.
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Wilkinson and her banking industry funders have floundered trying to show that retail markets aren't competitive.
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It raised taxes, feuded with bureaucrats and floundered in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
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The administration earlier this year began direct talks with the Taliban as Trump's plan has floundered.
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But as the party's legislative agenda has floundered, Trump's relationship with the Republican Congress has soured.
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Greenfield is making her first run for statewide office after her 2018 campaign for Congress floundered.
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But year-to-date the sector has floundered, falling more than four percent through Monday's close.
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The fresh business, though, floundered, leaving Campbell with a $619 million impairment charge this past quarter.
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Efforts to reform the state's bail industry floundered after stiff resistance from the bail-bond industry.
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Many Bitcoin startups floundered in 2018, despite record amounts of venture capital invested in the industry.
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Sales floundered, budgets were cut and, eventually, Digimon games stopped being exported from their Japanese homeland.
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There were competing companies — startups that later floundered like SugarSync promised to do the same thing.
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While the team has floundered around him, deGrom has pitched as well as anyone in baseball.
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In Moscow, the policy zigzags prompted both confusion and anger as the Kremlin floundered to respond.
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"All right miss, say excuse me," floundered across the entrances of the train with eye rolls.
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The legend of the self-proclaimed Black Mamba lived even as his team floundered around him.
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Meanwhile, Main Street America floundered while good-paying manufacturing positions were lost to minimum wage jobs.
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Christie floundered through the primaries, ending his bid after he went all-in in New Hampshire.
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Adding to that, companies like Lyft, Uber, Peloton and Slack have floundered on the public market.
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She floundered for a year until she resigned and found a new job in another industry.
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She continually demanded more from her athletes, but the team floundered and she planned to resign.
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But Rubin left Google in 2014, and since then Google's robot efforts, called Replicant, have floundered.
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U.K. punk magazines derided them as "Typical Typical"; their singles floundered at home while charting overseas.
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That goal floundered as Tehran persisted in expanding its influence in the Middle East via terrorist movements.
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But that system has floundered in practice, with contested cases bogging down in years of pretrial hearings.
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That honor's traditionally gone to James Buchanan, who floundered in the run-up to the Civil War.
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He floundered, appearing on a Russian reality TV show and dancing with the Stanislavsky Theater in Moscow.
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My 2016 resolutions died young and unrealized, as unfulfilled and unfulfilling as the year in which they floundered.
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A previous resettlement scheme, designed to distribute refugees across EU member states, has floundered amid bickering over quotas.
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But numerous plans have floundered because the central bank did not supply enough currency to meet market demand.
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Prior to last quarter, revenue growth had floundered in the range of flat to negative single-digit losses.
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As the plan floundered, France, Italy and Spain have moved to introduce digital taxes on the national level.
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Naughty America can't rely on traditional promotion strategies Search traffic has floundered as an investment for Naughty America.
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The meal-kit provider's stock has floundered as its business has struggled to find a loyal subscription base.
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He floundered, and considered devoting his life to translating his beloved Faulkner when he had a chance sighting.
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But the company struggled to find interest and floundered as competition grew in the midmarket casual dining sector.
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While his offense floundered, Red Sox starter Hector Velazquez held the Tigers scoreless over the first three innings.
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Moore's campaign floundered after several women accused him of sexual misconduct, including pursuing teenage girls and child molestation.
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"There was no master on the bridge to guide the ship as it floundered through unchartered waters," he said.
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But unlike her three musical savant siblings, she floundered though her audition for the prestigious Amberley School of Music.
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Previous attempts to sale the state-owned airline have floundered, in part due to a lack of potential buyers.
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But when Jennifer's Body hit theaters in 2009, it floundered critically, scraping by with a 44% Rotten Tomatoes rating.
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It floundered because U.S. unverified access to the Alcantara base was not acceptable to Brazilian politicians on sovereignty grounds.
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"I remember the very first debate: One candidate floundered and one candidate was really on her game," Chastain said.
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Now if Trump's campaign had floundered after that proposal, would Nehlen have risked raising the notion of deporting Muslims?
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After serving in Afghanistan, he floundered in despondency until Fuches began paying him to murder small-time low-lifes.
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The rudderless SPA floundered through the next decade, beset by internal disagreements, and eventually split in the early 1970s.
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Of course, Giuliani wasn't ultimately able to transfer that popularity into winning higher office; His 2008 presidential bid floundered.
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But that project floundered and it took another six years before the company finally entered Indian market in 2000.
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Facebook's market cap floundered by almost $214 billion that day, the equivalent of Foot Locker's total value at the time.
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" That said, Vanderpump revealed filming has been "very difficult" for her lately, admitting that she "kind of floundered this season.
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More financially mature economies than India would struggle to cope with such a scheme, but this one floundered at once.
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Weinstein's name was attached to a number of assets, many of which have floundered in the wake of Weinstein's downfall.
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Others relied too heavily on the enthusiasm of individual university officials in Britain, and floundered when those people moved on.
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That lack of planning and strategic focus may help explain why Amazon Studios has floundered at times in recent years.
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Garland's nomination has floundered for months because Republicans say they want the next president to make that life-long appointment.
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But as trade came to rely more on shipping, land routes fell out of favour and many Eurasian hubs floundered.
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Beto O'Rourke to deliver on the early promise of his campaign, which has floundered in the polls and with donors.
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Since these bills have floundered, though, there's no indication that these extra resources will be put in place anytime soon.
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Viacom, meanwhile, floundered under its former CEO, Philippe Dauman, losing top talent and enduring steep ratings declines at its networks.
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Conversely, when the Astros thrived early in the series, Judge floundered, and as the Yankees have surged, Altuve has slumped.
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The story also featured footage of a Post reporter confronting Phillips, who floundered under questioning before deciding to stop answering.
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SUNDAY PUZZLE — I hope nobody floundered today, but if you're fighting on the line right now we're here to help.
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The former vice president has shown notable resilience for a 76-year-old who floundered in two earlier presidential bids.
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He wandered around scratching his head, or pulling on his beard, as blue-and-white-clad teammates floundered around him.
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While the follow-up 2012 animated sitcom of the same title floundered, the film continues to enjoy a cult following.
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It floundered after several missteps, notably a lack of support from the developer community and Microsoft's botched acquisition of Nokia.
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He arrived four minutes before he was due to give a speech and floundered at the podium, seemingly at sea.
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While the social network floundered in its first year on the public markets, it has since become a global advertising powerhouse.
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In 22011, he and others came back as the Russian economy floundered, but it took two more years to find work.
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He even drew friendly appearances by rival candidates Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum, past Iowa winners who have floundered so far.
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Source, an ambitious effort to build a website for artists to share the work they make with Pixite's apps, had floundered.
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Politico's Bill Scher compared the impeachment push to the GOP attempt to repeal Obamacare, which also floundered in Congress last year.
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That meant there were more customers for the taking — and more revenues to help us grow our organization while others floundered.
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The government of President Emmanuel Macron has condemned the violence and said it regretted that mediation efforts had so far floundered.
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Hilton Hotels, which was acquired by Blackstone in 2007 for $26 billion, has also floundered since its 2013 initial public offering.
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Efforts to create its own software floundered, and a partnership with Microsoft to use Windows Phone software failed to gain traction.
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While he floundered, immobile, on the floor, I heated a couple of cubes in a pan with a splash of water.
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Just past the halfway point of a season marking new eras for New York men's basketball, both N.B.A. teams have floundered.
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Since then diplomacy -- aimed at achieving the denuclearization of North Korea -- has floundered CNN has approached North Korea officials for comment.
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But Van Susteren's ratings floundered in her first months on the air there, averaging one million viewers per night in June.
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Candidates who initially tried to bypass Iowa and New Hampshire in favor of more diverse southern and western states have floundered.
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Suddenly he had scored 16 straight points and was seemingly intent on carrying the Knicks by himself as his teammates floundered.
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Despite his tireless efforts to secure a peace agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians early in his tenure, the efforts ultimately floundered.
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It's certainly true to say that alternative mobile platforms have floundered in the face of the massive dominance of the Android ecosystem.
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Their children often floundered in German schools, which sort by ability early and struggle to provide opportunities to pupils from poor backgrounds.
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And in that sense, the film really does echo the viral Bodyguard, which floundered after the big twist in its third episode.
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As the gun battle raged between Hodgkinson and Capitol Police officers on Scalise's detail, his colleagues watched as the majority whip floundered.
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The company bought one-time Finnish cell phone giant Nokia for billions only to take another big loss after the acquisition floundered.
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Apple first passed Microsoft to become the world's most valuable company in 2010, as its consumer hardware business thrived while Microsoft's floundered.
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Labels floundered as they attempted to cope with the profit deficit, and protect their sales in the face of rampant file-sharing.
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John Conyers first raised the idea in Congress just days after King's assassination in 1968, and similar proposals floundered for years after.
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Mr. Hamon floundered during the campaign and received less than 7 percent of the vote, a cratering of support for his party.
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And while the Department of Labor's efforts on this front have floundered, the Securities and Exchange Commission is working on its own version.
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In the months after his Senate run, he's floundered on the specifics of his views on everything from health care to, yes, immigration.
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This Time Capsule course examines trends all the way from 1994 to today and talks about why different sites thrived while others floundered.
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The amendment had previously passed the state Senate, but floundered in the House of Delegates, where it failed in committee again this January.
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Both characters floundered, and DiBiase would hang up his boots altogether in 2013, opting out of the industry into which he'd been born.
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The presumption is that Lindsay's hometown date floundered, though, for all we know, she made it to the final before being sent home.
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Critics compared her to Diana Ross and Aretha Franklin but her career floundered in the 1980s when she ran into problems with heroin.
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President Trump stormed into office promising an exhausting number of wins, but he's floundered in his attempts to undo his predecessor's signature accomplishment.
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Though the company looked at refineries in Europe, South America and Africa, the deals never materialized, and the stand-alone Canadian plant floundered.
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EST) - Prince Ali: "Football has thrived but FIFA has floundered - the game has carried its governing body" 11:40 GMT (053:40 a.m.
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Many of the African works have lost touch with their original meanings, a result of floundered oral histories and provenance muddled by colonization.
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But Felix and his peers had no patience for the vagaries of the national gun-control debates that have floundered in recent years.
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Apple (APPL) first passed Microsoft to become the world's most valuable company in 2010, as its consumer hardware business thrived while Microsoft's floundered.
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Potential presidential nominations for the Secretaries of the Army and Labor floundered because the White House staff failed to properly vet the nominees.
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In real life, the royal had her fair share of trying days when she floundered while trying to maintain a seemingly perfect image.
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The sad reality of today, however, is WhatsApp has grown into one of the world's most important social services but Viber has floundered.
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Aguiar said that agreement floundered because it allowed the U.S. unverified access to the Alcantara base that was not acceptable on sovereignty grounds.
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And while G.M. and Chrysler floundered with high costs, shifting strategies, and constant turnover of senior executives, Ford seemed a model of consistency.
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Upon returning to Britain, Mr. Hunt's early efforts to export marmalade to Japan floundered before he set up a successful educational business, Hotcourses.
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This, after all, was the second consecutive season that the Utes had floundered here, having lost to Washington by 10-3 last year.
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The Federal Reserve has consistently floundered in getting the economy back on track, and in getting inflation where it wanted it to be.
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As I floundered around this morning trying to figure out how and where to help, I came across this ever-growing pile of tweets.
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The Aussie dollar has advanced strongly as its U.S. counterpart floundered through most of this week, soaring to a 26-month high on Thursday.
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Earlier this year, Bloomberg reported that Hoffman's Win The Future initiative had floundered despite promising at its launch to shake up the political system.
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Tourism is one of the few thriving sectors of an economy that has floundered since the military seized power in a May 2014 coup.
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His attempt to pass a cap-and-trade bill floundered in 2010, and he has tried to avoid Congress on environmental issues ever since.
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Stocks floundered after the Fed raised interest rates by a quarter point as expected Wednesday, though the Dow edged higher to a record close.
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Thirteen years in, the January show was a flighty grab bag, with one scene that thrilled, a couple that tickled, two others that floundered.
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That optimism waned through the weekend, and Democratic conferees were expected to meet Sunday morning to discuss next steps as the border negotiations floundered.
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After entering the year as the top team in the nation, Tom Izzo's Michigan State Spartans floundered considerably well before conference play tipped off.
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The Bulldogs (0-2) floundered with a couple scoring droughts, and didn't make a field goal for the final 3:01 of the first half.
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Yet Giuliani's campaign floundered in the fields of Iowa, where his cultural liberalism, including a record of supporting reproductive freedom and LGBT rights, hurt him.
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In Cincinnati last week, Federer floundered badly against Novak Djokovic in the final, making a large number of uncharacteristic errors before succumbing in straight sets.
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But again and again the show floundered, indulging in cockamamie leaps of logic and inexplicable fantasies, with barely any character development to back them up.
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Ted Strickland was well-positioned to knock off Portman, but his campaign floundered over the summer as his gubernatorial record became a serious vulnerability. Rep.
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Instead, as he has floundered in the early stages of the campaign, Mr. Johnson has discovered that the people are taking their case to him.
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LONDON(Reuters) - Sterling fell to a seven-day low on Thursday as the dollar rallied broadly on robust U.S. retail sales and the euro floundered.
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The office has floundered for months, these people say, and has drawn particular scrutiny from Chief of Staff John Kelly, who has asked for changes.
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The moves allowed it to avoid a bailout as a number of major banks on both sides of the Atlantic floundered and sought government lifelines.
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There is also a growing sense of invincibility among many top White House officials who have watched as past efforts to investigate Trump have floundered.
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Before its dip Wednesday, gold had rallied for three straight sessions as concerns around North Korea-related tensions persisted and the dollar's relative value floundered.
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But that plan floundered because the European Commission demanded that private investors pump 1.25 billion euros into the two banks before state aid could be disbursed.
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Mrs May's government floundered when the Democratic Unionist Party, which props it up, joined hardline Tory backbenchers in refusing three times to endorse her Brexit deal.
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Its tighter regulations are based on a similar law proposed after the Mariana disaster floundered in the chamber's environment committee and never reached the lower house.
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Historians will later cite the manner in which the cabaret card is administered as a key reason why New York's jazz scene floundered in the 1940s.
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Through gossip we learn that Nina did go to Moscow and win Trigorin's heart, but their baby died; her career floundered; he went back to Irina.
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A long-standing confidant of Mr Redstone, and a spring chicken by comparison at 62, Mr Dauman has fallen out of favour as Viacom has floundered.
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"Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes" also floundered in the key 21625-2900 demographic that advertisers covet most, registering just 220006,2202 in that category.
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When the beloved podcast host Bill Simmons tried to take his interview style to HBO, on the late-night program "Any Given Wednesday," he floundered onscreen.
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But where others would have floundered, Johnson became increasingly popular, culminating in his two victories in usually left-leaning London's mayoral contests in 2008 and 2012.
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The hardships he faced, the hunger that would come if the village harvest floundered, and how he worked so hard to get out — I never listened.
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In the same stretch, though, New England twice floundered near the Titans' end zone and had to settle for field goals, which proved to be pivotal.
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The team struggled even more with requests like "positive bisexual representation" and "to be transported," as skits floundered in the twilight zone between comedy and earnestness.
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Anthony's future became a frequent topic of discussion as the Knicks floundered to a 31-51 record and missed the playoffs for a fourth consecutive season.
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The primary reason the AHCA floundered as a policy document was because it kept too much of the structure of a structurally flawed act in place.
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Corrine, who has long floundered professionally, was always the more solid of the two, the more philosophical and self-sufficient, even if she is financially dependent.
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Since then, its attempts to form a governing coalition have floundered, snubbed by rivals who say they will not work with a party tainted by corruption scandals.
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J&F and other companies discussed potential mergers and acquisitions for Vigor, but those talks always floundered because of price issues, sources told Reuters in recent months.
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With Pac dead, Knight in jail and Longo out of a job, Gina Longo's career floundered—despite having a reported eight songs recorded for her debut album.
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A second attempt at healthcare reform also floundered on Thursday, when House GOP leaders announced that a revised bill would not come to a vote this week.
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Given Trump's low approval numbers for much of the first 17 months of his presidency, it's not terribly surprising that his ethics ratings have floundered as well.
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As American strategy floundered, the operators served a useful cultural purpose: highlighting tactical victories and individual courage, made doubly and tragically heroic by politicians' and strategists' blunders.
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As that empire floundered in the early 1990s, Mr. Trump pressured his financial backers to forgive hundreds of millions of dollars in debt he could not repay.
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They showed themselves impervious to the weather in the format on Friday, seemingly playing in their own bubble as the more favored nations floundered through atrocious conditions.
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The term "Chung-Chart" was first popularized by Warong Dechgitvigrom, a senior figure in the Democrat Party, the old establishment party which floundered in the March election.
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It's worth looking at some of the decisions Warren made as her presidential run floundered, however, and exploring why those efforts largely failed to save her campaign.
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Even with heavy restrictions on film imports, Hollywood action films have been a pillar of the Chinese box office, while conventional patriotic Chinese movies have often floundered.
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At 19, he became a Continental Army general and was hailed across the country for his efforts; his own attempts to influence the revolution in France floundered.
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While his team mates battled through a gusty day and floundered on the fast and tricky greens, the 15-time major champion was a picture of composure.
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She floundered in the face of questions about school choice and campus sexual assault — issues that, a year into the job, she should be well versed in.
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For every long career he helped jumpstart, there were a couple more that floundered once he lost interest and moved on to the next band or starlet.
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Haussmann floundered about, spending time abroad and staying out of the public spotlight until the late 1870s, when he came back to Paris to re-enter politics.
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But my biggest question is, with thousands of employees and a years-long lead over everyone else, why has Snapchat floundered when its first real competitor has emerged?
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Subsequent attempts at negotiations floundered as Japanese leaders have, until now, demanded the transfer of all four islands, a position that Soviet and Russian leaders have steadfastly rejected.
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Each of these lofty plans have floundered, and one of the biggest reasons is money; NASA just hasn't received the same substantial budget boost it received during Apollo.
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The monetarism which then gained favour floundered a decade later, when central banks targeting money-supply growth discovered that the link between their targets and inflation had vanished.
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But talks have floundered, with the Taliban currently holding control of nearly half of the country, while routinely carrying out attacks on government officials and local security forces.
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Attempts by the Chinese insurer to invest in a real estate project affiliated with the family of U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law floundered earlier this year.
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Ives himself reduced his rating from outperform to neutral in April and cut his price target to as low as $220 in July as Tesla&aposs shares floundered.
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Even if King survived, some historians say the original Poor People's Campaign would have floundered because the nation had turned away from King and the poor by 1968.
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The company has floundered in recent years, and ownership has changed hands multiple times with the most recent being a 2011 acquisition by Ventizz, a European private equity firm.
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But the movement floundered as quickly as it flourished, due in part to its successes — the US birth rate fell below population "replacement" levels by 1972, and Roe v.
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In 2011, as part of reforms to lessen the presence of the state in certain sectors, it was bought by Ping An, a private insurer, and has since floundered.
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Under former CEO Matthias Mueller, attempts to slim down the group by selling Ducati and Renk floundered amid opposition from labor leaders and the controlling Porsche and Piech families.
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Early attempts by newspapers to put up digital "paywalls" floundered, and met with derision from critics and competitors vaunting the internet's ability to generate huge audiences for free content.
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The reach and influence of newspaper endorsements has eroded steadily in recent years as media markets have fragmented, politics has polarized, and big city papers have floundered and disappeared.
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Seven years later, the Cavaliers floundered to a fourth place finish in the East, while the Toronto Raptors were the best team in the conference pretty much all year.
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Without rest or pause — while those frumious jaws Went savagely snapping around —He skipped and he hopped, and he floundered and flopped, Till fainting he fell to the ground.
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Before jumping in the race, Gillibrand was seen as a leading contender alongside a number of her colleagues, though her campaign has floundered since its debut earlier this year.
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It's impossible to watch the movie without knowing how bad his career floundered after Green Lantern, as there are a couple of outright references to it in the film.
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Even President Nixon, alarmed by the unrest of late 1960s, proposed a universal income bill that eventually floundered in an endless back and forth between the two legislative houses.
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Alyssa Edwards, who can only see the world through the lens of herself, would have floundered like a carnival goldfish on a hot sidewalk after it's plastic bag broke.
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The mood in Brussels has been somber as the British Parliament floundered in its attempts either to pass the withdrawal agreement or to find a majority for any alternative.
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As I floundered around in the Elites, one thought kept crossing my mind: It would take a lot more than a fancy shoe to turn me into Des Linden.
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Beyond this, the Obama administration's stated intentions to improve the North Korean human rights situation has floundered with new, tragic revelations that the regime's gulags are expanding and thriving.
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As the Obama Administration has floundered through the challenges and failures identified by Bruck, a new generation has grown up in a world in which Guantánamo has always existed.
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And just as the PRI predicted, the two National Action presidents floundered, getting their initiatives through Congress only with the help of the PRI, which retook the presidency in 2012.
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He dropped his phone in it, struggled to pick it up, and when he finally floundered back to his feet again his face was coated with a perfect brown oval.
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Trump unhappy Kusher went skiing as health care bill floundered In addition to other duties across the administration, he has been tasked with the role of Middle East peace envoy.
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Hewson floundered on air, unable to answer what appeared to be the simplest of questions about how his proposed GST would be applied to the purchase of a birthday cake.
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In the three years between the West End and our current revival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, my film has floundered, sunk without a trace, resurfaced and sunk again.
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Charles Randell, who becomes chair of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in April, told lawmakers the watchdog's predecessor agency floundered after being forced to balance market soundness with maintaining competitiveness.
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"Missing Richard Simmons" pulled off a grand gesture of camp—describing the failed pursuit of an impossible object of desire—but floundered in its effort to morally defend that pursuit.
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The $1.6 billion budget for a new station was finalized in 2017, but construction plans have stalled as financing commitments for the larger $30 billion-plus Gateway Project have floundered.
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Facebook is perhaps the best recent example of a company that floundered in its debut, powered through a few doubt-filled years, and came out much stronger on the other side.
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Washington (CNN)The Department of Veterans Affairs whistleblower protection office has "significant deficiencies" and "floundered in its mission to protect whistleblowers" according to an inspector general report made public on Thursday.
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Iwata, who died of cancer in 2015, changed his thinking a few years later, as the Wii U floundered and investors began to strongly urge the company to alter its stance.
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Amid this confusion the champion would effortlessly slap in a backhand on the humming bulb growing around Koscheck's eye as he floundered, and Koscheck's body would seize up as he winced.
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Meanwhile, the big parties have floundered over complex new issues, including how to deal with climate change (per person, Australians are huge emitters of carbon), changing social mores and asylum-seekers.
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The 25-year-old Canadian, who has led since his opening round 61, was three ahead of the field when he floundered in a fairway bunker on the par-four 11th.
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Expected to hit left-handed pitching well, something he had done for much of his career, Mayberry floundered the way many of the Mets' hitters did in the first four months.
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Having enjoyed success with the long stick, he floundered around until finding his comfort zone with a 40.5-inch putter that he rests against his left arm, but not his chest.
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Fullerton India benefited from the halo of its indirect parent, Singapore sovereign wealth fund Temasek Holdings, while L&T Finance floundered despite the pedigree of its parent, Indian conglomerate Larsen & Toubro.
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King's Poor People's Campaign floundered in the wake of his death, and Johnson's War on Poverty seems to have become, in the hands of later presidents, a War on the Poor.
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Critics before me have contemplated its near-evaporation, noting that efforts to recuperate the genre — Unforgettable (280), Red Sparrow (290), the Netflix series What/If (2019) — have, with rare exceptions, floundered.
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But a new roster, under the direction of the first-year general manager Scot McCloughan, won a few games, the rest of the division floundered, and presto, Washington was a playoff contender.
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Yet capacity has been stuck since 2000, and plants have floundered financially because gas is cheap and there is no reward for the absence of pollution which is nuclear's main selling point.
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The State Department's "Think Again, Turn Away" public relations campaign, which has the noble goal of countering the Islamic State's propaganda, has floundered since its inception because its content is comically stodgy.
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Jihadists like al-Qaeda had scant time for the apocalyptic, but as successive waves of jihad floundered and the Sunni lot worsened, some Sunnis adopted some of Shia Islam's more fantastical thinking.
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Despite offering a service considered essential to most consumers, Yelp has floundered for the last couple years as it's tried to figure out how to effectively make money off of that demand.
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In a poor season in which the team otherwise floundered, finishing 14th and only four points away from relegation, Klinsmann finished as top scorer before deciding to retire on a personal high.
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The Wood-Dempsey-Zardes triumvirate was a poor schematic fit to anyone watching, yet the German manager committed so hard to it that they floundered until the 66th minute of the match.
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Tunisia's transition to democracy has been hailed as the success story of the 2011 Arab Spring revolts, but economic development has floundered since the fall of autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali.
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As negotiations between the US and North Korea floundered last month, Hagin was dispatched to Singapore to work with his North Korean counterparts to sort out sticky logistical concerns for the summit.
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But legislation to do so has floundered in Congress — particularly in the Senate, where Republicans have failed to round up the votes within their own party to approve a health-care bill.
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But the dollar floundered and was headed for its biggest daily loss in two weeks as the euro rebounded from the 4 1/2-month low of $1.1717 it reached on Monday.
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The organization charged with electing Democratic candidates across the country has floundered at the state level, all while sustaining a leech-like consultant class that sucks up too much of its money.
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Overnight leader Jon Rahm floundered, the Spaniard making three bogeys in the first four holes and compounding his misery by dunking his tee shot into the water at the par-three 17th.
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Shepard is a peculiar filmmaker, whose jazzy 2005 feature "The Matador" might have been a breakthrough had it found the audience it deserved, and who has mostly floundered in subsequent film efforts.
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But the whip effort to garner the 218 for passage has floundered since then, as Goodlatte (R-Va.) has been unwilling to modify his proposal to appease moderate members of the conference.
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When Mr. Reagan floundered for a while in his 1984 re-election campaign, Mr. Ailes coached him in ways to appear sharper in a televised debate and to display his innate affability.
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But the deal floundered in Congress and was shunned in 2016 by Mr. Sanders and Hillary Clinton, the leading Democratic candidates that year, as Mr. Trump began to outflank them on trade.
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The singer's perfectly candid about the particulars of why this relationship floundered, but he's also wholly uninterested in the labels the world is keen to pin to Salvat thanks to his romantic choices.
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Periodic attempts to reunify Cyprus have floundered, most recently in 2004 when the so-called Annan plan was backed by Turkish-Cypriot voters but rejected by three-quarters of the Greek-Cypriot majority.
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Some EU countries have re-established border controls within the passport-free Schengen zone, where they had been abolished, while efforts to share out the asylum-seekers across EU member states have floundered.
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Most of these companies have either floundered or given up on their consumer plans since businesses are far more likely to need an expensive, specialized device that works best with a few applications.
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The Nuggets, who have flourished at home and floundered on the road this season, breezed past the Orlando Magic 143-89 on Friday with a dominating second-half performance at the Amway Center.
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As the future of the traditional Berber region by Mount Boutmezguida floundered, a mathematician whose family came from the area had a eureka moment gleaned from living overseas - using fog to make water.
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Edcon, bought out by Bain Capital in a highly leveraged deal a decade ago, has struggled as growth in South Africa has floundered, forcing it into a debt-for-equity swap last year.
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James Delingpole wrote that Pruitt "sweated, stuttered, and floundered," and that he failed to point out "the incompetence, corruption, and mendacity" of world-renowned scientific institutions like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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It was billed as the Keurig of the pressed juice market — a curious goal considering that company has floundered for months — and hailed as one of the hottest hardware ventures in the valley.
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Explaining the outcome, Mr. Trump voiced a truth that Republicans have been loath to acknowledge: Civilian courts have been ruthlessly effective in bringing terrorists to justice, while the military commission system has floundered.
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His efforts floundered in Congress as Republicans could not get legislation to final passage even when they had majorities in both the House and Senate the first two years of the Trump administration.
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Previous attempts to redistribute migrants have floundered on demands from EU states that they only receive refugees fleeing war or discrimination, who are eligible for asylum — a small minority of recent boat migrants.
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Kim's proposal is seen by some as a way of kickstarting the stalled U.S.-North Korea denuclearization talks that have floundered in recent weeks due to a perceived lack of progress by Pyongyang.
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Past bipartisan pushes to fix gaps in the background check system after other tragic mass shootings have floundered in the U.S. Congress, and some Republican senators have already expressed concerns about renewed efforts.
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And whether his businesses have floundered or thrived, Trump is a showman who knows the value of good ratings — and that it takes a steady stream of outsize, deliberately provocative statements to get them.
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Talks in 2015 with companies including Carl Icahn-backed CVR Energy floundered because the parties could not agree on a valuation for the plant, according to one of the sources familiar with the talks.
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Cloudflare tried launching a similar app store back in 2011 and built it up to about 30 supported apps before the project floundered due to shifting priorities for the growing company at the time.
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Terrell Owens, Randy Moss, and Chad Ochocinco are just a few recent names who went from delighting fans and media members to becoming targets, blamed as the sole reason for why their teams floundered.
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Facebook continued its winning streak as other tech companies floundered, reaching 1.65 billion monthly users and surpassing estimates in its Q8.623 2016 earnings report with $5.38 billion in revenue and $0.77 earnings per share.
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Still, it pledged to implement anti-poverty measures and maintain minimum social assistance spending of 133 percent of GDP, noting previous fiscal reforms had floundered in Argentina because "society's most vulnerable" were not protected.
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Communist-ruled Cuba fell into an economic recession in the second half of last year, its first since the collapse of the Soviet Union a quarter century ago, as its strategic ally Venezuela floundered.
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Even as the administration floundered over replacing ObamaCare, the proposed tax reforms have unwittingly kicked off the reinvention of the delivery of health care, a movement with which government wouldn't normally have been involved.
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Meanwhile, the U.S. dollar floundered against the yen and the euro after soft data in the world's largest economy prompted investors to reconsider whether the U.S. will raise interest rates in the coming months.
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Those bans only happened because Yahoo floundered and put the site at the mercy of Verizon, which wanted it only for ad revenue and wouldn't put resources into better moderation algorithms or more staff.
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Sanders, the race's front-runner a mere two weeks ago, now needs a rapid turnaround — the likes of which Biden saw when his campaign floundered ahead of the South Carolina primary on Feb. 29.
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Since then diplomacy -- aimed at achieving the denuclearization of North Korea -- has floundered, and as Trump focuses on his reelection campaign his appetite to engage on the issue has waned, according to the sources.
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The kids on the bus who floundered weren't somehow worse than their parents or less prepared—indeed, they mostly had more education—and they didn't have weaker characters than their counterparts in other countries.
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Trump and Republican lawmakers are pushing hard for the first tax code overhaul in decades, after efforts to repeal and replace parts of the Affordable Care Act floundered in the Senate earlier this year.
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The Pirates suffered through a stretch of 13 losses in 15 games while McCutchen floundered and then suddenly recorded three straight wins over the Los Angeles Dodgers before falling 5-4 in Monday's series finale.
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Eneva, which filed for bankruptcy in 2014, was part of a stable of companies in which the tycoon Eike Batista — who was found guilty of bribery after his once-promising investments floundered — had a stake.
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Over the next years, as publications floundered, they followed Facebook's algorithmic tweaks, pivoting to viral headlines or listicles or "long-form" or video, remaking entire newsrooms to generate what the platform suggested would play well.
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They've floundered on Obamacare repeal and fought to thread the political needle between a temperamental White House and the volatile environment it has spawned, and face a series of vital deadlines over the coming weeks.
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Later in the hearing, Zinke hedged that he's not an expert, and floundered when he tried to explain to Senator Al Franken (D-MN) that the ocean is a big contributor to atmospheric carbon dioxide.
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Nonetheless, in the time that Podolski has earned this distinguished international record – and won the World Cup, let's not forget – he has also floundered at several clubs, not least Bayern Munich, Arsenal and Inter Milan.
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Despite initially expecting to draw millions of dollars in funding from the wealthy family of Bob and Rebekah Mercer, America First Policies has floundered in its opening months amid squabbles between Rebekah Mercer and Parscale.
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Bonds also floundered as last week's rally, on the back of the rand's push to its firmest in two weeks, petered out, with investors limiting bets ahead of United States employment figures due on Friday.
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" Academically, he floundered, but he sometimes won the lead in the school's theater productions, which led to his hanging out with a girl named Lisa Hanawalt, now the production designer and a producer on "BoJack.
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Efforts to update the rules have consistently floundered due to opposition from some developing countries who wish to free-ride off U.S.-based knowledge industries by portraying IP as an oppressive tool of rich countries.
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Talks to secure an orderly British exit from the European Union have floundered on the question of how to avoid infrastructure along the border between EU member Ireland and the British region of Northern Ireland.
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Talks to secure an orderly British exit from the European Union have floundered on the question of how to avoid infrastructure along the border between EU member Ireland and the British region of Northern Ireland.
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Mr. Gabbay, who had floundered since taking over Labor in 2017, was convinced that Ms. Livni — in publicly calling for the center-left to unite, but not necessarily behind Mr. Gabbay — had been undermining him.
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He said the others had died indirectly — from a heart attack or suicide, or because they languished without oxygen or necessary medical care as hospitals floundered without power and patients were cut off from care.
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Growth in Africa's most advanced economy has floundered in recent years amid power cuts and falling business and consumer confidence, with unemployment at its highest in more than a decade and living costs also rising.
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Since then diplomacy -- aimed at achieving the denuclearization of North Korea -- has floundered, and as Trump focuses on his re-election campaign his appetite to engage on the issue has waned, according to the sources.
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When we left off, Wendy (Laura Linney) was leading the charge on the casino/money laundering front as Marty (Jason Bateman) floundered to find his family a way out of Missouri — and the cartel's clutches.
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Three other smaller coal-fired plants with capacity to add 270 MW to the national grid are down after negotiations to secure funding from Indias Export and Import Bank to repair and upgrade the generators floundered.
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But when Putin's Novorossiya project floundered — his actions in eastern Ukraine succeeded in destabilizing the country but not in dominating it outright — he shifted strategies, seeking to maintain a low-level conflict rather than to escalate.
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Republican Senator Pat Toomey, a sponsor of a bill that would require background checks for weapons sold at gun shows and on the internet, said Trump's support could help advance proposals that floundered in years passed.
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Watching him make save after save while the likes of Federico Fazio and Vlad Chiriches floundered in front of him made you wonder what exactly he'd done to deserve such a long stretch of community service.
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When they added soap to the water in the test tank to reduce surface tension, the geckos floundered, moving at a much slower speed and failing to get enough of the body above water to hydroplane.
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The Trump news is scarier, funnier, more salacious and more relevant than anything else on TV. It's why the apolitical Jimmy Fallon has floundered in the age of Trump while the hyperpolitical Stephen Colbert has thrived.
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The coalition partners — the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and far-right League — had been at loggerheads with Economy Minister Giovanni Tria over the sensitive appointments and all previous efforts to reach a compromise had floundered.
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Executives at NBC Universal turned to him to stabilize the network after the suspension of the nightly news anchor Brian Williams for embellishing accounts of his reporting in Iraq, and as MSNBC floundered in the ratings.
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During the course of the last two trying weeks, as less-experienced advisers floundered — and others skipped town — Mr. Pence emerged as an effective, if not ultimately successful, wingman for a president short on competent help.
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Then a new sultan took over and focused on education, of girls as well as boys, and Oman is now a boring, peaceful place, while Yemen floundered — and is torn apart by terrorism and civil war.
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Soaring demand for floating-rate debt has already seen a wave of repricing and refinancing activity, and are now returning with deals that floundered during a period of volatility that started in the second half of 2893.8.
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CBS has been performing well in a tough market for years, while Viacom has floundered throughout the last two decades as young audiences leave their suite of networks (MTV, Nickelodeon, and VH1, among others) for streaming options.
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Yet despite her ties to top Democrats and appeal to women and liberal activists, Davis floundered in her last statewide race for governor last cycle, disappointing Democratic leaders and setting back ambitions to turn the state blue.
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But when Rudy Giuliani cleaned up Midtown under his mayorship, many of the arcades there floundered due to skyrocketing rent, which left a niche for the relatively out-of-the-way spot in lower Manhattan to fill.
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Cancer immunotherapists floundered for decades, the laughing stock of the research community, unable to prove their theory that the immune system could be helped recognize and kill cancer cells, and largely unable to help real cancer patients.
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While Google has floundered on social networking services it's shown to have a deft hand at growing a communication network in the form of email, making it Google's most viable competitor against messaging apps at the moment.
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But despite its early promise as a competitor to top-selling models like the Toyota Camry and the Honda Accord, the 21 has floundered in the marketplace — and exposed Fiat Chrysler's limitations in the midsize car segment.
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However, efforts to set up an automatic EU-wide redistribution system for migrants reaching Italy appears to have floundered and MSF said it was "sorry" that only three countries had agreed to take in the new arrivals.
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Now, a decade after his company's efforts floundered, President Donald Trump is arguing that it's the son of his political rival Joe Biden, not him, who wanted to benefit from what he calls a "very corrupt" Ukraine.
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LATAM Airlines was formed in the merger of Chile's LAN and Brazil's TAM in 2012, but has so far failed to live up to its promise, posting repeated losses as South America's commodities-dependent economies have floundered.
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" The scorching response to Brawner's allegations included a deep dig at her career -- "Having floundered after being fired by the Globetrotters she apparently will say anything for a bit of media attention and a glimpse of the spotlight.
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A government led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi took power after sweeping elections in 2015, but key institutions such as the police remain under military control and efforts to strengthen the rule of law have floundered.
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The ruling Socialist Party's efforts at creating similar auction systems over the last four years have floundered because they set artificially low exchange rates that left buyers seeking more dollars than the central bank had available to sell.
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Overall, the heart of Cruz's effort is to expose Trump as a fake conservative -- the exact same charge leveled by Jeb Bush, Rand Paul, Rick Perry and Bobby Jindal, all of whose campaigns have floundered or ended altogether.
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Key economic reforms are stalled, his "Make in India" push to turn the country into a manufacturing powerhouse has floundered and sizeable minority groups blame him and his party for pushing a Hindu nationalist agenda at their expense.
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These include the possibility of rising interest rates in the United States, China's slowdown, low oil prices, conflicts in the Middle East and the reality that equities have been lethargic and bonds have floundered in a bear market.
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Squeezed by tax hikes on petrol and tobacco as well as oil price-driven inflation, household spending has floundered this year whereas it is traditionally the single biggest source of growth, accounting for 52 percent of economic output.
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That meant many a startup floundered or was acquired before it was able to gain traction while the nonprofit foundation that manages the project started to scale back its big tent approach and refocused on its core services.
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People like Pete Buttigieg and Mike Bloomberg attracted the crucial and self-fulfilling attention of the media, while Warren, amid a devastating poll, an unnecessarily convoluted Medicare for All rollout, and subsequent public beefing to her left, floundered.
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Read more: These photos reveal why women are abandoning Victoria's Secret for American Eagle's Aerie underwear brand We visited an Aerie store in Midtown Manhattan and saw why it has been so successful while Victoria's Secret has floundered:
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The exchange is effectively a derivative sequel to the 2017 spat between Trump and Kim, where the two launched a war of words ― chiefly "Rocket Man" and "dotard" ― as nuclear negotiations between the U.S. and North Korea floundered.
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And while Sanders-endorsed candidates have floundered nationally, they got a big win last night when 28-year-old Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez breezed past establishment figurehead Joe Crowley in the primary for the relatively safe 14th District.
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It's the latest installment in the media's seemingly endless fascination with O'Rourke, even as the briefly beloved Democrat has floundered in fundraising and polling as he sets his sights on the White House in a hugely crowded 22019 field.
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It's the latest installment in the media's seemingly endless fascination with O'Rourke, even as the briefly beloved Democrat has floundered in fundraising and polling as he sets his sights on the White House in a hugely crowded 10 field.
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Contrary to legend, it is not true that he once asked Branch Rickey to swap Dizzy Dean and Pepper Martin for Jolly Cholly Grimm and a ton of Bismarck herring at cost; nevertheless, he floundered (sorry) in the role.
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But that too has floundered because of tepid interest among potential buyers and management now expect the business will only be sold in 2019, in time to meet stricter rules requiring a larger capital cushion that enter force then.
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In the armchair quarterbacking following Bush's departure from the race Saturday night, Murphy is facing countless questions about the efficacy of the PAC spending tens of millions of dollars on a candidacy that floundered months ago and never rebounded.
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The anti-establishment 5-Star Movement on Wednesday challenged the far-right League to split with its coalition partners by the end of this week and form a government together, as talks to end Italy's post-election deadlock floundered.
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While Republican lawmakers have largely floundered in their push to repeal the Affordable Care Act, President Trump moved last month to end key subsidies to insurers, throwing the future of former President Obama's signature health-care law into uncertainty.
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While Walker was a boon for the Mets until he sustained a back injury, Niese floundered in the Pirates' rotation, injured his knee, was sent to the bullpen and then was traded back to the Mets at the Aug.
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The $5.5 billion link between Jakarta and Bandung to the southeast is a flagship project for President Joko Widodo, whose infrastructure investment plans have floundered in red tape and an economy growing at its slowest pace since the global financial crisis.
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Differentials for some top Angolan crude grades like Dalia remained near all-time highs, but attempts by sellers to push them higher in the absence of Iran and Venezuela's barrels and new shipping fuel standards set for next year have floundered.
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As these characters floundered in season 1, however, Dr. Finn got a solid spotlight episode with "Into the Fold," which let her shine as a doctor, a mother, and an officer after a crash-landing on a planet crawling with cannibals.
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ROME (Reuters) - The anti-establishment 5-Star Movement on Wednesday challenged the far-right League to abandon its electoral allies by the end of this week and form a joint government, as talks to end Italy's post-election deadlock floundered.
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Ali Akbar Salehi said the European Union was "doing its best" after the United States pulled out of the deal and re-imposed sanctions on Iranian oil exports this month, even as the bloc's efforts to salvage trade ties have floundered.
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A democratically elected government led by Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi took power in Myanmar in 2015, but key institutions such as the police remain under military control and efforts to strengthen the rule of law have floundered.
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The company spent $151 million in 2011 to acquire restaurant review service Zagat in an attempt to ditch its reliance on services like Yelp but the effort floundered and Google has reportedly been looking for a buyer to take Zagat off its hands.
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But then, the company's growth nearly ground to a halt in 2016 when Withings was bought out by Nokia, whose push into digital health floundered mightily, and resulted in Nokia selling Withings back to one of its original founders just two years later.
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Such a hypothetical basket of trades, which is long financials and small caps (equally long the XLF, XLB and IWM) and short technology and gold (equally short the XLK and GLD), may have been a successful trade postelection, but has floundered recently.
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In more recent developments it has added a tracker blocker to its product mix — and been dabbling in policy advocacy — calling for a revival of a Do Not Track browser standard, after earlier attempts floundered with the industry, failing to reach accord.
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That leaves The Left, a party that descends from East Germany's communists; the Greens, a centre-left party considered closest to the Social Democrats; and the Free Democrats, a liberal party that has floundered in recent years but now seems nationally resurgent.
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The trio of fundraisers was a sort of victory lap for Trump, who has long spoken animatedly about his desire to reform the tax code, especially since GOP efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act floundered in Congress earlier this year.
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A stranger to the culture of a publication that delighted in needling the rich and powerful, he initially floundered as a publisher, alienating reporters and cycling through a series of editors before landing on an old friend of the Kushner family, Ken Kurson.
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Sanders sought to catch Clinton off balance over the swift rise in his poll numbers over the last month, stirring fears among some Clinton supporters that history could be repeating itself, after her once "inevitable" 2008 Democratic primary campaign floundered when then-Sen.
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Florida, the third-largest state in the country in terms of electoral college votes needed to win the White House, has seen an influx of people from Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, as the Caribbean island's economy has floundered in recent years.
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The certainties of racial superiority and a right to rule justified by a higher civilization floundered and seemed to drown in the years following, as liberals and leftists and a new generation of young radicals repudiated and sneered at their imperialist elders.
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As federal and state governments have floundered in their direction of services and information addressing tenants' basic needs, organizations like KC Tenants have stepped in to fill the void by connecting panicked tenants with mutual aid networks, legal services, and public health resources.
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" Kim Dong-yub, a North Korea expert at the Seoul-based Institute for Far Eastern Studies, said, "The negotiations likely have floundered from the beginning because North Korea and the United States both sought to get too much while offering too little.
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Meanwhile, supporters of former Vice President Joe Biden, whose own campaign has floundered since primary voters started heading to the polls, are touting a super PAC supporting his candidacy as the best vehicle for wealthy Democrats seeking an alternative to the Vermont senator.
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Unlike some of the other matches who floundered in the real world (justice for Mark Cuevas), these two grew closer as each day passed despite being total opposites; Speed is a perky, happy-go-lucky extrovert, and Hamilton is more the strong, silent introvert type.
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Republicans floundered in their attempts to come up with a replacement for Obamacare because the truth, which they know but refuse to say out loud, is that many of their constituents have benefited from, and have come to depend on, the changes wrought by Obamacare.
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U.S. talks with North Korea have floundered since Trump walked away from a February summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un after they hit an impasse on proposed U.S. sanctions relief and how much of its weapons program Pyongyang was willing to shutter.
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It was a question that Trump should have expected, yet he floundered in his response, first pinning the blame for the entire birther controversy on a former Clinton aide before painting himself as a heroic seeker of truth who only did the job that journalists wouldn't do.
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A planned conversion into Carige shares of a 320 million euro bond owned by the fund, which was part of the wider rescue deal involving BlackRock, was no longer possible for now given the rest of the plan had floundered, the FITD fund said in a statement.
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Hillary, as well as President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2628 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE, have routinely floundered in the aftermath of police shootings involving black citizens.
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A woman in a teal bra and ripped jeans floundered over a banquette, her body liquid like one of Dalí's melting clocks, while a man seated behind her held her close with one hand and steadied a cup of ice cream on his thigh with the other.
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Many of the most successful founders and chief executives in the technology industry, such as Bill Gates of Microsoft, and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, are introverts who might have floundered in the extroverted culture of IBM, with its company songs and strong emphasis on team-bonding.
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It has subsequently been caught out as the economy has floundered because of the misguided interventionism of Dilma Rousseff, who had to step aside from the presidency in May after Brazil's Senate voted to hold an impeachment trial against her, compounded by the falling prices of commodities.
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The Yankees needed that sort of output on a day when Masahiro Tanaka again floundered on four days' rest and when relievers Dellin Betances, Andrew Miller and Aroldis Chapman were most likely unavailable because they had combined to throw five and a third innings on Saturday.
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The river is a powerful example of Mexico's failure to protect its environment: A New York Times analysis of 258 years of efforts to clean up the Santiago found that attempts floundered in the face of legal loopholes, deficient funding and a lack of political will.
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Steve BullockSteve BullockNew poll finds Biden, Warren in virtual tie in Iowa Gabbard drives coverage in push to qualify for October debate Partisan divisions sharpen as independent voters fade MORE (D), who would have traditionally best appealed to more-independent voters, have floundered in the race.
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The country has floundered in the grip of simultaneous political and economic crises for nearly half a year, as the remittances from Lebanese working abroad, aid from Gulf countries and financial wizardry at Lebanon's banks, which had kept the economy buoyant for years, began to collapse.
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As Tesla floundered early in the year, hamstrung by the production hell of its Model 20193, Musk's company SpaceX made history when it completed a test of its Falcon Heavy rocket, the heavy-lift orbital vehicle that can carry twice the weight of its closest competition in active operation.
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The first episode of season 5 saw contestants coming for each other's wigs inside a dumpster as they fought over trashed fabric to use for a runway challenge, and the ladies of season 6 floundered in front of a live audience during a (mostly) painful stand-up comedy routine.
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But perhaps he learned something from the finals a year ago, when the Cavaliers, absent the injured Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love, turned to Smith for some production and he floundered, shooting 31.2 percent from the field as the Golden State Warriors took the series in six games.
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The past week was a lesson in the scale of the challenge, as the communications team floundered after the news conference on Monday in Helsinki, Finland, in which Mr. Trump sided with Mr. Putin and undercut American intelligence findings that Moscow worked to undermine the 2016 presidential election.
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Despite being a household name, Eastern Air Lines was pressured by union labor disputes and floundered in debt, selling itself and all assets in parts and ceasing operations in 1991A second reboot of the airline started in 2015 and is currently operating flights between New York and South America.
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But so far, the U.N. Human Rights Council's attempts have floundered amid opposition from Saudi Arabia and silence from the U.S. Between 2012 and 2016, the U.S. was the top weapons exporter in the world and Saudi Arabia was the top consumer, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
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On Monday night, as the Senate Republican health care bill floundered in the wake of two defections that were more than enough to kill the bill, Washington Post reporter Robert Costa took to Twitter to explain the inside story of why congressional Republicans are comfortable with failing to repeal Obamacare.
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Pittsburgh 27, Florida State 22 After starting the season 25-216, Pittsburgh had floundered of late — losing two of its previous three games — but the Panthers got back on track Saturday with a 133-213 come-from-behind win at Florida State in Atlantic Coast Conference play at Tallahassee, Fla.
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She stepped out on stage and realized a festival crowd in Switzerland didn't actually come prepared for 4 Non Blondes' 'everyone knows the chorus and maybe pre-chorus' hit "What's Up." And her cover, with all of its attempts at crowd participation, floundered about three-quarters of the way through.
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With a new character focus that works, and stakes that feel more intimate and serious along with it, the series has found a new direction to push itself in after developer The Coalition, which took over after Gears of War 3, floundered to find one in Gears of War 4.
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But after Gerst asked for his favorite song — which turned out to be "Man-Machine" by Kraftwerk — CIMON simultaneously switched to video-streaming mode and became stuck on being a DJ. "I like music you can dance to!" enthused the floating brain as Gerst floundered, tried to get CIMON to exit music mode.
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And even as she documents a campaign that floundered because it had too much head and not enough heart, Chozick risks falling into the same trap: In trying to outwork her male colleagues and outwit The Guys, Chozick at times seems to lose track of the emotional arc of Clinton's rise and fall.
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Last year, in the Netflix documentary Gaga: Five Foot Two, which followed her as she made her fourth album Joanne, she admitted that her romantic life has suffered because of her stardom, and her two most recent albums, ARTPOP and Joanne, floundered critically, accused of bloating, disjointedness and unoriginality in certain corners of the press.
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The dollar floundered against the yen and the euro as the data prompted investors to reconsider the most likely timing of the Fed move - they now price a 22.5 percent probability of a rate move in June, down from around 32 percent factored in a few days back, according to the CME Group FedWatch programme.
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For weeks it floundered on SoundCloud and later squirmed through the music app TikTok, where it gained social relevance and chart placement, but it wasn't until Billboard decided to yank it from its Hot Country Songs listing—it did not "embrace enough elements of today's country music," they reasoned—that it catapulted into the fulcrum of online discourse.
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Obama's efforts to breathe new vigor into an Oslo Process that had been comatose for the best part of a decade by the time he took office quickly floundered — a tale of vain diplomatic entreaties that illustrate the morose absurdity of expecting success when repeating the just-get-them-talking pattern that had delivered a decade-plus of failure.
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It's easy to forget that Rubio's campaign floundered until he adopted a dark, conspiratorial message in January—about Hillary Clinton's supposedly calculated lies to the families of Benghazi victims; about President Obama's supposedly deliberate efforts to sabotage the United States and weaken it "on the global stage"—at which point his appeal within the party (among both voters and elites) began to rise.
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Almonte's gift was a welcome one not only for Ellsbury, who despite his $153 million contract has lost his starting job to the rookie Clint Frazier, but also for a Yankees offense that has floundered for much of the last week and that lost its scuffling designated hitter, Matt Holliday, to the disabled list on Sunday because of a sore back.
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Coming to Washington she was a "star" with positions both at the Treasury Department and as a Latin America director on the National Security Council in the White House, while her husband Cruz floundered, the Washington Post reported in its piece "Heidi Cruz is the high-powered political spouse we've rarely seen since Hillary Clinton": But the more apt comparison for Heidi Cruz may be to Hillary Clinton.
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But its reputation for skimping on care has so tainted the plans that the insurers and companies resurrecting them have gone through innumerable steps to try to avoid using the term H.M.O. — only to be told, at least in one case by state regulators, that an H.M.O. must still be called an H.M.O. That's because its defining feature is the restriction placed over which doctor or hospital a patient can use, which was a primary reason so many floundered in the 1990s.
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While he floundered for an adequate response that would ultimately never come, he looked like a man bent on never acknowledging one very obvious and important fact: that in a year of record profits and 8 figure compensation at the highest levels, the pay at his bank is way out of whack and further, that if someone working full time for him cannot afford even the most basic necessities without running up a crushing amount of life-destroying debt, something needs changing, and fast.
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