And yet there is the opposite of this mood too, on the other end of that ever weakening and ever-shifting frame of wooden planks.
Few outsiders grasp how profoundly restrictions such as Cadivi – a currency control agency that tried to shore up the ever weakening Venezuelan bolivar – perverted the economy and spawned a class of high-rolling parasites nicknamed "boligarchs".
And the biggest problem for Greece if it returns to the drachma, says Hal S. Scott, an expert on international finance at Harvard Law School, would be persuading Greeks to believe in and hold an ever weakening drachma when a much stronger euro would be so readily available.
While markets focus on the subprime mortgage crisis, an even bigger one is looming: the ever weakening dollar.
However, if these forms of public scrutiny ever weaken, officials may yet return to carrying out brutal acts in the name of national security.
During the yearlong erosion of U.S. bank capital, offshore pots of gold (the primary repository of the trillions of excess Greenspan dollars created through superlow interest rates from 2003 06) have shown substantial interest in investing in America but not into the ever weakening dollar.
The national standards agency denied that it had ever deliberately weakened a cryptographic standard, and it moved to clarify its relationship with the N.S.A. "The National Security Agency participates in the N.I.S.T. cryptography process because of its recognized expertise," the standards agency said.
For all his homers, for all the praise for his.370 batting title and his record.582 on-base percentage this season, the arguments about how Bonds just might be the best baseball player ever will always be weakened by his pathetic postseason numbers so far.
This has been the process from the original community health councils (CHCs), through a number of other ever-weakening formulations, to the latest model, the greatly constrained HealthWatch.
In the final volume of Howard's "Four Seasons" quartet, Mimi, a writer plagued by a heart complaint and an obsession with Central Park, visits the Park daily despite her ever-weakening condition.
