Investors cannot afford to watch their wealth wither away in low returning money market funds and short-term bonds.
Data scientists, too, need to have some verbal and visual communication skills, lest their insights wither away in the lab.
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That point, overextended, posits that big companies will wither away, and the world will be nothing but teams and short-term jobs.
Little by little, shooters and gun stores would get the message, and the problem of unsecured guns the main source of gun tragedy would wither away.
Republican Congressional leaders should not suggest to the American people that they want to save Medicare when in their heart, they want to see it wither away.
Indeed, when Magic Johnson was diagnosed with HIV in 1991, most of us assumed we would be watching this glorious athlete wither away in at most a couple of years.
If diets worked, all the economic activities that now ride on the back of them, all the emotional hope sold by the magazines and all the diet foods and diet club memberships and weekly dues from repeat customers, would wither away.
In this environment, regulation and supervision didn't quite wither away, but it's fair to say they lost support and lost potency, partly as a matter of ideology but partly because the banks that were the most heavily regulated lost relative importance in the market so there was overall less regulation.
This does not mean that the cable companies will wither and go away.
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