The American approach is out-and-out reckless.With the superstorm now dissipating, estimates of its economic impact are beginning to emerge.
By preparing for deficit-cutting and neglecting productivity, government departments are dissipating their efforts.
Unfortunately, the strength of sterling against the dollar is partly dissipating the windfall gain.
Bob Herz and Sir David Tweedie, former heads of America's Financial Accounting Standards Board and the IASB respectively, left their jobs in 2010 and 2011, further dissipating momentum.
Their earlier worry, that the EU was moving the goalposts before they had even got on to the playing-field, is dissipating.
He wants to focus on the school rather than dissipating energy on risky foreign ventures.
Even the embarrassment of the army's unsentimental abandonment of its Lebanese allies is quickly dissipating as the government offers cash handouts and resettlement promises to the mercenaries and their families who straggled in as refugees.The Lebanese army has now reimposed restrictions on travel to the former occupied zone, making it difficult for trouble-makers to get near the border.
Nor does it look like dissipating any time soon.Support for Ms Silva, a former environment minister and green activist, has surged from 21% in the days immediately following the accident to 34%, according to a poll published on August 29th by Datafolha.
But with the rouble losing almost half of its value over the past year, and the economy facing recession and inflation at the same time, that euphoria is quickly dissipating.
The new president has been silent on the issue of competition policy and the power of private oligopolists such as Telmex, the telecoms company, and Televisa, a television giant.To make early progress in dissipating political and social tensions, Mr Calderón will have to rely on the fairly limited powers of the executive.
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