Inter-bank lending is drying up and some investors are withdrawing funds particularly from southern European banks.
When Dollar General held its ground it was a sign the selling pressure was drying up.
With Wall Street research drying up, scores of companies must now fend for themselves.
So, with traditional sources of employment drying up, where will business-school graduates find jobs?
But that very success led to donor funds drying up and local attention waning.
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Regional population growth and increasing water demands are the primary reasons the lake is drying up.
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The chilling effect is already evident in the drying up of discounted branded goods reaching retailers.
Netbooks are cheap, low-end notebooks, the market for which is, at this point, pretty much drying up.
So you stuff deep down inside what you really want and feel your inner passion drying up.
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On the software side, a similar consolidation and drying up of innovation and competition has taken place.
Through the migrant grapevine, they know that jobs are drying up several months before government statisticians notice.
Reassuringly, the government has acted quickly to stop liquidity from drying up as credit markets seize up elsewhere.
During the financial crisis, banks stopped lending to each other, resulting in their short-term supplies of funding drying up.
There are reports of food shortages, hoarding and a drying up of investment.
Rivers are drying up: the Yellow river now flows to the sea for only a few weeks a year.
High interest rates and a drying up of credit in turn mean more companies are unable to repay debt.
Like many volunteers, he is frustrated with the drying up of media interest.
Dexia, which used short-term funding to finance long-term lending, found credit drying up as the euro zone debt crisis worsened.
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Its financial system has fragmented, confidence is evaporating, demand is drying up and deposits are leaking out of the banks.
The drying up of hardliners' smuggling income has made it a less attractive proposition to remain a rabid Serb nationalist.
So between protecting the Syrian pound and paying for political loyalty, the Assad regime is quickly drying up Syria's treasury.
High lending rates between banks, or a drying up of liquidity, marked the infancy of the credit crunch this time last year.
The rich sponsorship deals signed during the fat years earlier this decade are expiring, and new sponsor money is drying up.
But demoralised, and with its old gushers of money from South Korea's conglomerates, the chaebol, drying up, it could easily fragment.
Recent climate-vegetation models suggest that excessive cerrado clearance could lead to the drying up and loss of rainforest in south Amazonia.
An exodus of Hans and a drying up of tourism from other parts of China would deal a body blow to the city's economy.
Detroit was already slammed when the weak dollar sent gas prices zooming, thus drying up demand for SUVs, Detroit's bread and butter.
But the drying up of financing for housing purchases and construction has led to a drying up of housing transactions in Spain.
Export credits for Iran have been rapidly drying up, including those from Germany, until very recently one of its keenest trading partners.
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