Granted, 20 years ago it was floundering in its post-industrial decline.
Though we don't need yet another indictment of the mental-health-care system in the United States, Aviv's piece gives us even more damning evidence that it is floundering.
Although the party had predicted it would create a "political earthquake", claiming it was on course to win two parliamentary seats and take control of Barking and Dagenham council, its campaign has been beset by problems, and it is floundering in the polls.
By the early 90s, it was floundering financially – thanks to the expense of recording My Bloody Valentine's Loveless – even if it was in a creative purple patch, thanks to MBV, Primal Scream and Teenage Fanclub.
"It was floundering, I think.
Mr. Potter joined the company two years ago, when it was floundering, several analysts said.
"I jumped into it with my proposals because, in my opinion, it was floundering," Mr. Malloy said.
Darrell Issa, a southern Californian congressman and car-alarm tycoon who financed the recall effort when it was floundering, is even less popular than Mr Davis.
But within two years it was floundering, condemned by the National Audit Office NAOO) and Commons public accounts committee for "squabbles over objectives and confusion over priority targets for resources".
Republicans in Congress who are investigating Solyndra's demise and the $38 billion Energy Department loan guarantee program are demanding to know why Mr. Chu, a Nobel Prize laureate in physics, continued to support Solyndra despite signals that it was floundering.
