After all, the script over the past few weeks has been depressingly familiar for Giants fans: The Giants have struggled to establish any kind of running attack and, even more glaringly, have suddenly begun faltering in the pass rush, a traditional strength.
Suzuki's powerful arm, however, has begun to falter.
Businesses say they are swamped with job applications but have few positions to offer as economic growth has begun to falter.
Administration officials and economists say there are growing indications that support of the traditional Sunni commercial elite has begun to falter, too.
Aid inflows have slowed just when foreign investment has begun to falter, while profit remittances and interest rate payments abroad have risen, making LDCs "particularly vulnerable" to any reversal in the commodity price boom.
A court-ordered halt to most iron ore mining across India for environmental reasons has hurt steel and other sectors; state governments have been raising taxes on the sector, and broader demand has begun to falter.
However, in the quarter-century since The End of History, as the Indian essayist and novelist Pankaj Mishra argues, almost everything that has happened suggests that the market-oriented democratic state has begun to falter.
But growth has begun to falter as the boost to the economy from the warm weather over the summer and England's performance at the World Cup has fizzled out.
Like most violence in South Asia, the Karachi riots stemmed from underlying poverty and deprivation, exacerbated by the fact that Pakistan's economy has begun to falter after several years of growth.
"We are at the point where, absent further progress, the process that has begun may well falter," he said on Sunday.
