And yet Schwab has survived the Internet crash of 2000 while upstarts have floundered.
After a gruesome skin disease forced Kampen to quit in 1994, Great Lakes' management floundered.
She says the campaign against drugs and gangs has floundered since special units were disbanded.
If the company has floundered, then bonus payments should certainly not be part of that pay-off.
Nintendo has been very frank with their assessment with why the Wii U has floundered so far.
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Searching for clues on how to make my way to Paris, I floundered toward the American expatriates.
Consignments of mobile PCs (read: not tablets) grew by 4 percent, while desktops floundered, dropping 12.8 percent.
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Mr Stedman Jones says that if the 1970s had not been so caustic, neoliberalism might have floundered.
Business confidence has floundered, with foreign investments declining about 40 percent in the first half of 2012.
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So far, attempts to get him and Mr Duhalde together to sort out their differences have floundered.
After Rajiv was himself assassinated in 1991, the Congress floundered as it lost a Nehru-Gandhi to lead it.
Investors wonder why Microsoft stock just floundered for years, while new companies and Google had so much success.
Many companies, both commercial and open source, have floundered because they had a great product but not enough customers.
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"The reform course in France seems to have floundered, " Germany's Jens Weidmann said.
The Bush Administration has jumped into the same rut in which our diplomacy has floundered for so many years.
My boss at the time appropriately demanded frequent, rigorous re-evaluations of my investment thesis as our short position floundered.
In the past, however, similar initiatives have floundered, for a number of reasons.
But the concept has floundered on problems of reliability, security and speedy access.
Palm -- The company was a pioneer in the world of portable digital gadgets but has floundered in recent years.
But there is evidence that Brewer might bolster the starting lineup, which has floundered since Shumpert came back last month.
By contrast, the Dutch batsmen floundered in the face of early strikes from Roach and left-arm spinner Sulieman Benn (3-28).
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Sales at its more than 4, 200 restaurants in China floundered, in part thanks to a poultry-supply scandal, but the Yum!
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But there is one area where Bell Labs, and many other corporate labs from the golden age of U.S. science, often floundered.
Dunlop and Pirelli were in the same business, but their merger floundered.
While a number of consumer Internet IPOs have recently floundered, Workday is an enterprise software company with different target markets and business models.
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Greece has floundered and failed to produce any noticeable economic results after more than a year of bail-out payments from the European central bank.
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Mr. Mandl called Mr. Dell and asked if the CEO planned to stay as CEO if the buyout floundered, according to a March regulatory filing.
In four long years of the Carter presidency, the economy floundered.
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As the republicans have shifted their ground, unionists have understandably floundered.
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