Word: floundered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...third and most distasteful scenario, the Foundation never gets off the ground but continues to flounder along, co-sponsoring speeches and the like but never becoming significant enough to outgrow the single office it maintains in University Hall. Third World students and white students show no real interest, but the Foundation offers a ready excuse for those members of the community who wish to rebut the notion that Harvard does nothing for its minorities. The presence of the Foundation furnishes a convenient excuse for those of this ilk to shunt aside minority concerns and avoid confronting the issue head...
ORGANIZED LABOR HAS been on the defensive in this country for a good long time now. The unionized percentage of the work force has shrunk steadily since the 1950s, it now numbers less than a quarter of the total. New union organizing drives flounder much more often than they succeed, usually through intimidation and high-pressure tactics by union-busting consultants. Even in traditionally unionized areas--coalmining, for instance--non-union production is on the rise, as owners learn to outlast and out-maneuver their workers. The partisan political power of unions has all but disappeared; Lane Kirkland...
...National Aquarium. Once doomed to flounder, it received $400,000 and a new perch at the National...
...there. An institution which says it realizes its problem with securing young teaching talent and then uniformly alienates and dismisses its junior faculty. An institution which rightly supports a policy of diverse admissions but then leaves the really "diverse" students, who aren't prepared for Harvard, to flounder without the aid of a decent advising system. An institution which decides to provide cheap power to its affiliated hospitals and Medical Schools and then builds a power plant with the alleged potential to injure more people than those doctors-to-be and the hospitals could ever handle...
...perceiving things from the viewpoints of those who disagree. The set of beliefs produces a system where only the most confident (some would say arrogant) and aggressive in the bunch get the undergraduate education that Harvard University should be giving each of its students. The rest, left to flounder in the nether reaches of the Economics, Biology or History departments and to deal with professors who should have given up teaching long ago, are chewed up and forgotten. They emerge four years later, having become part of a process that teaches you to answer questions but never to ask them...