She quashed the rumour by severing links with R Kelly, teaming up with Timbaland and dropping the nymphette posturing for her vastly superior 1996 album, One in a Million.
Manager Andre Villas-Boas took the bold decision to drop the vastly experienced Frank Lampard for a game that could have shaped the Blues boss's future - then saw another of Stamford Bridge's old guard prove the catalyst to confirm a place in the last 16 as Group E winners.
But it is vastly preferable to the alternative, of higher wages for some but mass unemployment, with people dropping out of the labour force entirely and in many cases never returning, as in previous recessions.
A troop increase, he wrote, "will bring vastly increased costs": Perhaps the charts we have all seen showing the U.S. presence then dropping off in coming years in a bell curve will prove accurate.
Even Goldman Sachs, which vastly outperformed its peers last quarter, dropped 4.9percentto to $218.39.
But a recent report by the Civic Committee of Chicago says that the gains were vastly exaggerated, because the state dropped the cut score to make it easier to pass the tests.
Nvidia revealed a new configuration of its DRIVE PX 2 in-car autonomous driving computing platform today, which vastly improves power efficiency and drops physical size compared to the original unveiled at CES earlier this year.
True, general living conditions in Vietnam have improved vastly since 1986, and poverty levels have dropped at a staggering and highly commendable rate.
In what was seen as a concession to major polluters, the Obama administration also abruptly dropped plans last year to vastly curb smog-generating emissions, angering environmentalists.
Even hugely expensive and capital intensive mass-transit infrastructure projects like streetcars and light rail can be dropped in favor of vastly cheaper on demand robotic "transportation clouds", and all those construction and maintenance jobs right along with it.
