Word: witheringly
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...halftime show was the hottest part of Saturday’s football game against Dartmouth, then you obviously left before the second half. And if you left before the second half, you may have walked away slack-jawed after watching Harvard’s dreams of a championship season wither while Dartmouth stomped through the Crimson defense...
...ground is no place for a champion,” he said. “You cannot let your faith wither on the canvas...
...even if the special forces get to him, what then? This isn't a case, in the sort of language loved by military folks, in which you just cut off the head of the snake and let the body wither. "Terrorism is not bin Laden," says a senior U.S. intelligence official. "He's got lieutenants waiting to succeed him." The cellular, secretive structure of al-Qaeda--small groups of operatives acting almost independently--militates against a quick, decisive strike. Says Ranstorp: "Al-Qaeda is truly a multinational enterprise; they have made it into a decentralized organization that understands the power...
Just a few months ago, Chairman Stephen Wolf was telling everyone from Congress to government regulators to Wall Street analysts that if its merger with United Airlines did not go through, US Airways could not survive on its own and would eventually wither and die. The merger, of course, never even got out of the hangar, and so this week the top brains at US Airways have finally let the rest of the world in on their "Plan B" - by which US Airlines would not only survive on its own, but thrive...
...Marx and Engels, globalization was a revolutionary phenomenon. The triumph of global capitalism had weakened the chains that held human potential in check. Autocratic rulers and priests had seen their power wither away; technology had offered the promise of plenty; great cities had rescued millions from the "idiocy of rural life." Trade had diminished the differences and antagonisms between states so that it was possible to dream of a true internationalism. Globalization, in other words, was potentially liberating...