Then he wisely attached himself to the slumping Fast/Furious franchise, a move that paid off earlier this year when the latest instalment coolly pounded a billion bucks out of the global box office.
Labor is poised to retain their three WA seats held by former frontbenchers Gary Gray and Melissa Parke, as well as Alannah MacTiernan, despite the primary vote for the party slumping to 29%.
Despite the market slumping thanks to Tesco's profit shock and worries about the mining sector, there are some bright spots.
His popularity was slumping and an election was looming.
We're meant to sit up exactly straight for eight hours without slumping.
Clegg on Sunday dismissed prospects of securing a significant renegotiation and suggested Cameron should concentrate on the economy - which risks slumping into a triple-dip recession.
"I would never say welfare plays no role," says Isabel Sawhill of the Brookings Institution, a think-tank, "but it's not the main thing .Analysts on the left argue that the collapse of the black family is largely a consequence of slumping wages for unskilled black men, which makes them less attractive as mates.
However, Boeing, an aerospace giant, announced that profits were up by 35% at $840m.America's slumping markets and nervous investors took their toll on Merrill Lynch, America's biggest stockbroker.
Now Daimler, chafing at Chrysler's mounting losses and slumping market share, is contemplating divorce".We do not exclude any option in order to find the best solution," said Dieter Zetsche, DaimlerChrysler's boss, on February 14th.
Yet it remains more likely that China's growth is slowing rather than slumping.
The gentle people of a once powerful country stared weak-eyed at a future of apparently inexorable decline, shaken by natural disasters, slumping stockmarkets, falling prices, a shrinking population, and growing irrelevance even scorn abroad.
