"I think I was really off," said Capriati, who has decided to attribute her current professional doldrums and personal upheavals to fate.

The problem is, it's not a big enough successstory to rescue us from the current doldrums.

With that possibility denied, the stock price has slumped to its current doldrums.

Whether either strategy confers an advantage for new labor force entrants seeking to survive the current economic doldrums remains to be seen.

He likened the state's single-minded devotion to the auto industry to "idolatry" and said, given the current doldrums, that it was time to look beyond cars.

What a rate cut would not do, he said, is rescue German industry from its current doldrums.

He contends that the current doldrums are simply part of the normal cycle that every business goes through, especially when digesting major acquisitions.

That era seems a world away from the current doldrums, in which tenants are less concerned with realizing profits than with limiting losses.

Many are there for corporate meetings in seaside hotels, a growing business even in the current business-travel doldrums.

These states, however, were among the first to see their economies fall into recession in 1991 and have been among the hardest-hit by the current economic doldrums.