Today, this economic miracle is up in the air.

Of course, the earnings that provided the basis for these bonuses evaporated in 2008.

Brown s reputation for fiscal prudence evaporated with the Great Recession.

Under President Bush, that authority has largely evaporated.

The idealism of India s freedom movement quickly evaporated after independence in the face of the opportunities for patronage that came with power.

But the statistics were not as good as they should have been. Brown s reputation for fiscal prudence evaporated with the Great Recession.

None of this is to say that the risks of foreign capital flows have evaporated, and that emerging markets should throw open their capital accounts all at once.

Making matters worse, when China needs to use its savings accumulated over two generations and packed into US Treasury bills to alleviate fiscal constraints, it will find that the value of its foreign exchange reserves has already evaporated.

Political Islam of all colors has emerged as the main alternative to secular Arab nationalist regimes whose legitimacy, based on the struggle for national liberation, has evaporated due to their inability to resolve economic and social problems, establish the rule of law, and guarantee fundamental freedoms.

It is not a secret that Hammour is being threatened for demanding her financial rights which was stolen from her by her brothers in cooperation with high ranking Syrian officers and officials. Her late father, Mohammad Moti' Hamour, who was the deputy of Saudi Air Lines, had his fortune which reached milliards evaporate from Syrian banks by forgery.

The idea that the British set any kind of standard for bank conduct was exploded by last year s Libor scandal, while the fiasco at RBS destroyed the notion that UK officials know how to handle a failing bank.