This threatens the stability of already weakened global financial markets if the dollar's decline triggers the kind of unruly flight previously endured by floundering developing world economies.
An annual growth rate of 5%, although not to be sniffed at, is only modest in South-East Asian terms, especially as Vietnam needs to grow rapidly to provide jobs for all the young people who will be entering the workforce, as well as those who will have to be laid off by floundering state-owned industries.
Despite a new and hard-fought players' collective bargaining agreement and dynamic young stars like Alexander Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby, the NHL is being held back by floundering teams like the Phoenix Coyotes, which has filed for bankruptcy protection.
Don't advertise that you made a mistake or make it worse by floundering, or by offering more than a simple "excuse me" by way of apology.
Seemingly unfazed by my flounder, Tinder Oliver gathers my splintered proclamations in one kindly swoop after another, adding his own intriguing insights to the heap.
Renal clearance techniques were used to examine the relative contributions of metabolism and renal tubular transport in determining the rates of excretion of benzo(a pyrene (BaP) and several of its phase I metabolites by southern flounder, Paralichthys lethostigma.
The bartender obliged Meredith with a virgin mojito, and we tucked into the house charcuterie plate, an unctuous duck liver mousse and creamy pork rillettes packed into a round butter dish, followed by a thinly crusted flounder accompanied by anise-scented baby root vegetables.
Then, in the '60s, this splendorous paradise was decapitated by its floundering original owner, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and surrounded by ugly office buildings that were a last, desperate gasp for profitability.
He's amused by their haplessness and stands by while they flounder until he accepts the dignity of their cause.
