For rural Mainers, though, hardships caused by wells running low are almost certain to get worse.
Fannie Mae's reputation as a well run, low-risk company was a "façade".Fannie Mae has agreed to improve its internal controls, accounting and risk management.
The Maine Emergency Management Agency says it believes that many of the 53,000 households in the state that depend on shallow wells are running low on water.
The main group fighting Isis, the Kurdish YPG militia, are far less well armed and running low on supplies of ammunition, but are well trained and determined to hold on to the last Kurdish enclave on a long stretch of the border with Turkey.
IBM is doing cutting-edge research and development in India and writing valuable software, as well as running low-cost call centres.
By all accounts, the oil industry is infused with this "can do" attitude: Oil running low? "Oil wells will run dry, but advances in technologies can put off the inevitable," said a 2006 article in a newsletter of the American Oil and Gas Historical Society.
But since it's the future, and everyone's running low on pals, well, here's a pin ode to those who came before ye.
Is it that producers prefer the comfort of well-known stories, are creative types running low on original ideas, or are movies the new "out of town" tryout for a plot before heading to Times Square?
Even under the best conditions, they say, home wells in the neighborhood are at risk of running low.
Ammunition was running low.
Nostalgia was running low.
