Those worries have grown as the lake has shrivelled.
Beside the path, beneath the trees, shrivelled and dying in the breeze.
This was a response to the lamentable record of the region's state-run pension systems, whose pensions were often shrivelled by inflation or by government raids on their funds.
By budget day his campaign vow to scrap the city's gross-receipts business tax had shrivelled to a plan to snip it from 0.51% to 0.425% over the next four years (although he continues to promise its elimination).
It has recovered rapidly in the past 30 years, while the once-dominant state sector has shrivelled.
Even Egypt, where recent turbulence shrivelled investment, is likely to surge as stability returns: its stockmarket gave an indication of what lies ahead when it hit an all-time high in September 2014 after a steady 15-month climb.But, this being the Middle East, caveats are in order.
At elite American universities, where endowments have shrivelled and hiring is down, increased interest in economics is among the most benign of the recession's effects.Yet the crisis has also highlighted flaws in the existing macroeconomics curriculum.
It found that by 2006 the combined revenues of Indonesia's military businesses had shrivelled to $185m at most, and put their profits at no more than $73m.
The scheme was a "nudge", intended to tip the balance towards entrepreneurial plunge-taking in parts of the country whose dynamism had shrivelled after 13 years in a tepid bath of public largesse.
Expectations have shrivelled in recent days, and the price of Fed funds futures now imply that investors see no chance of a half-point cut and an almost 20% likelihood of no cut at all.
As a result, bank lending to the private sector shrivelled, from 23.8% of GDP in 2000 to 10.8% in 2003.
