But the lion's share of this literature still languishes unpublished or out of print and unrecorded.

In 1995, its shares languished at $15 amid worries about the debt-laden utility's future under deregulation.

Through good times and bad, its shares have languished.

In the short term, the rules may sting the Bell companies, whose shares have already been languishing because of regulatory uncertainty.

But some Internet-related shares that had caught investor attention in recent weeks are now languishing.

Limited's shares have languished over the last three years as the company's three largest divisions faltered.

Unlike many other highflying Internet stocks, shares of on-line grocers have languished.

Even as the major stock indices continued to rise briskly, Monsanto's shares have languished.

One reason AT&T may want to issue a new stock to track the long-distance unit is that its shares have languished recently.

The story was quickly denied, yet the shares were languishing at 255p, down 15, by the close.