So where were we to find good news and inspiration this week, before giving up and withering away in the heat?

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It raised the status of the professions, by making them harder to enter, and it saved the liberal-arts college from withering away.

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But the first two industries started withering away because of cheap foreign manufacturers, and NCNB faced a bleak future confined to North Carolina.

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But controlling piracy will not solve the chief problem the Internet poses for the record companies: the withering away of manufacturing and distribution.

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