The phrase "a struggling operation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a business or organization that is facing difficulties or challenges in its functioning or performance.
Example: "Despite the initial success, the restaurant has become a struggling operation due to increased competition and rising costs."
Alternatives: "a faltering business" or "a failing venture."
But the paper in 1963 was also a struggling operation with an uncertain future.
And Mr. Ullman will continue to try to placate multiple masters without perhaps the experience to fix a struggling operation.
Bringing in Williams, however tarnished, still adds star wattage to a struggling operation.
Verizon Communications Inc. is cutting 7% of its media staff, part of a bid to overhaul a struggling operation that includes the former online icons AOL and Yahoo.
When the proposed changes in science education standards surfaced in Kansas and quickly made national headlines, support for NCSE blossomed, and the organization went from a small, perennially struggling operation to one with enough resources and staff to make a difference and to be assured of continued survival.
But when that hospital became his temporary refuge, Mr. Heredia was unwittingly swept up in a different drama: the long-running fight over whether the struggling operation will stay open.
Seed money of about $185,000 came largely from seven health-related foundations, and Ms. Gentry hopes to attract advertising and donations for her struggling operation.
Even as Germany's top-of-the-market models are setting sales records in the United States, in France the government has floated the idea of a tax on luxury automobiles to help the struggling operations of Peugeot, Citroën and Renault.
In the 1990's, it closed down struggling operations in Texas, North Carolina, New England and the Kansas City area.
Mr. Brezenoff said it had become a fairly common strategy for hospitals, which are often sitting on prime real estate, to sell properties to shore up struggling operations.
As industrial tariffs fell, the benefits of lower equipment costs made themselves felt and farmers were able to expand by buying out struggling operations.
