Power sapped their humanity.

But by the early 1980's social democracy had exhausted itself.

When the mines were exhausted, the emphasis turned to other products such as coffee, salts and textiles.

But in 1822, as he crossed the Andes, Simón Bolívar confronted the Pastusos rebellion, who were accosting his army through guerrilla warfare.

As for the rest, their reasons for supporting the Bush administration s savings draining policies remain mysterious.

Organizing the tournament was very expensive, of course, and the money spent on preparations drained resources meant for Brazil's many other pressing issues.

Commentators are consumed by politics, flailing away at any available target, while the anti austerity masses apparently believe that there are easy cyclical solutions to tough structural problems.

Recently, Vogel has described Japan s political system as an absolute mess, with prime ministers replaced almost every year and the youngest generation s expectations sapped by years of deflation.

They point to the fact that the world's major central banks the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, and the Bank of Japan have so firmly established their anti inflation credibility that the inflation risk premium has been wrung out of interest rates.

However, it is now clearer than ever that these challenges have thus far outstripped the capacities both of the science and technology community and of society to forge effective and comprehensive responses.

But his credibility was sapped in the wake of criticism of the BoE s handling of the collapse in 1991 of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International an episode that anticipated later issues in managing the failure of large, cross border institutions.

Unless and until the US faces up to its chronic aversion to saving namely, by reducing massive federal budget deficits and encouraging the rebuilding of severely depleted household saving multilateral trade deficits will persist.

Furthermore, the inclusion of milk as a group unto itself implies that is an essential part of a healthy diet, despite the many people who are lactose intolerant or choose to abstain from dairy, and a number of cultures that have historically consumed little if any dairy products.

Yes, American military prowess has drained away into what Winston Churchill called the thankless deserts of Mesopotamia, and its moral authority has been weakened by events in places from Guantánamo Bay to Abu Ghraib.