But Brown has a blueprint for a way out of these doldrums.
One reason for the doldrums may be the slumping economy.
AS THE British economy heads straight for the doldrums, the City is struggling too.
For The Doldrums, he only played half the strings on his guitar.
There, personified, was a cure for the doldrums of spring training, an antidote to the dull spirit of work that predominates in this string of low-stakes contests.
As the Chinese saying has it, in a good wind even turkeys can fly; but management consultancies may be heading for the doldrums.
But now free players are largely viewed as eccentrics, throwbacks, in part responsible for the doldrums in which jazz now finds itself.
As the game settled into the inevitable, it left time for contemplation, and one clear thought emerged: this game, for its occasional doldrums, did mark a real transition in the history of hockey.
In follow-up interviews, many poll respondents did not blame the mayor for the economic doldrums.
Blame for the economic doldrums is focused on the Renaissance Party, a centrist Islamist party that dominates the transitional governing coalition.
