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I don't want to psychologize, but clearly he simply found himself unable to manage this large and difficult subject, floundered, and grasped onto a series of unwise devices that derailed the project--of which the fictional narrators are only one, and not the most disastrous.
That's one reason why the category-killer approach to car-selling, exemplified by AutoNation (which just announced it was closing its used-car superstores), has floundered so badly.
Instead, Fisher has floundered.
well, floundered.
There was a succession of right-wing attempts to govern and Spain floundered in a sea of political strikes and violence.