Other people in his fix and looking for a way out of the financial doldrums worked at things they didn't care about and made more money.

Mr. Daley is also riding the crest of the economic boom that has lifted cities across the country, including Chicago, out of their financial doldrums.

There are his present financial doldrums; there are his prospects if he can start his petrol station.

Suze agreed that the bankers' worst nightmare could be good for our spendthrift teens and predicted the financial doldrums would continue to 2015.

Mr. Brower, a former United States assistant postmaster general, arrived in 1985 at the Newport Beach, Calif., company with the assignment of leading it out of its financial doldrums.

By the middle of the 1960s clubland generally was in the financial doldrums, and the Oxford and Cambridge was no exception.

HMS Great Britain sails rudderless into financial doldrums with a mutinous crew led by an untested midshipmen against a grace and favour skipper.

Emerging with style from its recent financial doldrums, Sears, Roebuck & Company today reported the highest first-quarter profit in its 106-year history.

Or just lollygags in the financial doldrums?

No one disputes that his tenure, in boom economic times to be sure, has rescued the museum from severe financial doldrums.