They are more and more vulnerable, and they have been for the last decade, treading water.
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RIMM, HTC and Motorola are all treading water with a lackluster product lineup.
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Lots of pull-offs from the table, indicating to me that they were treading water.
Most markets, including the precious metals, are treading water until the new year begins.
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It's tough when everyone else is going forward and I've been treading water all day.
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For a decade or more, middle-class families felt like they were treading water, that they were losing ground.
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The broad sense is of an economy that is treading water - not one that is about to drown.
"It's like treading water - you can't plan owt, " says Gary Wood, 25.
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Plan for the end of 2010 assuming the latest announcements will end in a signed law or keep treading water?
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Beyond the numbers there are signs that we are doing more than just treading water with regards to job growth, however.
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Just about every self-contained, classically keyed solo, duet or group number seems to be treading water rather than deepening the drama.
Every American has been, on average, treading water for the past decade.
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From a record high of 995 in 1966, when the Business Week article appeared, the Dow was treading water just below 900.
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Watching Paul Collingwood and Jonathan Trott ambling in gave the appearance of England treading water while giving their front liners a break.
In other words, while the WaPO is building a business that will double in six years, the NY Times is merely treading water.
The middle class is still treading water, and those aspiring to reach the middle class are doing everything they can to keep from drowning.
Economists like Chris Williamson of Markit, have been scratching their heads, trying to explain why the economy has been generating jobs even though it is treading water.
Sometimes I swam out to the middle and stayed there, treading water, listening to the quiet that surrounded me, a hiatus in the air, like a held breath.
Aside from the recent housing bubble and subsequent collapse, over time home prices have risen at about the same rate of inflation, the financial equivalent of treading water.
Sad thing is, Whitney says, Thain is basically treading water.
The last PISA survey indicated Scotland is "treading water".
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Others may try to ply their trade in an alternative league, treading water in the United Football League, the Canadian Football League (whose season has already begun) or one of the various indoor leagues.
"With our own Scottish Chambers of Commerce Quarterly Business Survey projecting only a marginal improvement in output and confidence in the early part of 2013, these latest figures underline the picture of an economy that has been treading water for an extended period of time, " she said.
As you can see, while they enjoyed robust growth in the days before the bubble popped, both the Czech Republic and Hungary have been treading economic water for quite awhile.
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