Word: witheringly
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...also been overdrawn. The threat is there, as Reagan knows better than anyone. The idea of dying with his boots on is not something any President talks about publicly. But in private a couple of them have made it plain that it is better to take that chance than wither away idly in a rocking chair...
...believe that there are good grounds for optimism about the future. Regimentation works up to a point but then becomes counter-productive. Modern economics, in particular, have become so immensely complex and so interdependent that they can no longer be effectively run from a single center. They wither unless they allow some scope to free initiative...
...that under Reagan-styled economic Darwinism. Americans are now willing to sacrifice white families as well in order to perpetuate the plusher segments of the economy. And with frustrated hopes for economic advancement, so too many of the legal gains of the civil rights movement seem to wither in the face of supply side and survival of the fittest. With a shrinking economic pie, hard fought affirmative action plans are flooding the courts...
President Bok's statements make it crystal clear that when anyone is protected too much from the realities of life their skin thin their voice becomes shrill, and their roots wither, President Bok should retire as Harvard President and go to work for a year as a dishwasher or a cab driver, or some other occupation where you come into contact with the rest of humanity. Malcolm W. Berkowitz...
...course, no one claims that all production in basic industries will wither away. Says Harvard's Robert B. Reich, author of The Next American Frontier: "The choice is not between a smokestack America, on the one hand, and high technology, on the other. That is a false choice." The real challenge confronting the U.S., he says, is how to use high technology in smokestack industries...