It's made us much, much safer and the risks of a violent confrontation have almost disappeared.
They've been through a couple of cycles where it wasn't self-sustaining and it almost disappeared.
We should mention that Troopergate has almost disappeared from the presidential campaign because of the financial news.
The ready availability of well-paid work, albeit hard and dangerous, means that unemployment has almost disappeared (see chart).
"Over the past 20 years there has been a gradual erosion in productions of English language theatre and it's almost disappeared in many areas, " he said.
"The Abkhaz people almost disappeared before the war, " he says.
As a result, many diseases that used to infect millions of children each year, killing or permanently injuring thousands of infants and toddlers, have almost disappeared from modern societies.
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In Zhejiang, the first Chinese province to provide support for the rural elderly, the sex imbalance at birth has almost disappeared, according to Xie Zhenming, editor of China Population Today.
Yet with industrialisation in the 1960s it almost disappeared.
In the years since then the market for, and revenues of, the yellow pages industry have almost entirely disappeared.
But in September 2008, the U.S. financial industry seized up with the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, and global trade almost immediately disappeared.
Manufacturing, one of the city's largest employers of the lower-middle class, has disappeared almost altogether.
The physical and time boundaries that used to divide our work and personal lives disappeared almost overnight.
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The nomadic way of life has disappeared almost everywhere else in the world but remains alive in Kyrgyzstan partly because of extreme economic hardship.
Not ten days after he recovered from that cough, he disappeared for almost the whole day, then rolled into the apartment and announced that he had scored himself a part-time job.
Then, on December 21, 2012 -- almost a year after he disappeared -- Hashi turned up in a U.S. criminal court in Brooklyn, New York, charged with "material support" of a terror organization, Al-Shabaab, and allegedly training to be a suicide bomber.
That disappeared in a later (almost certainly fake) render, but it's back now -- with a vengeance.
Denis Donaldson disappeared from the Belfast political scene almost immediately after the revelations.
The biggest difficulty, Wintemute continued, is that almost all of the associations between more laws and fewer deaths disappeared when the investigators took into account the prevalence of gun ownership in each state.
While I didn't do any formal testing, I could almost see the meter run down using internet radio -- a quarter of the reported capacity disappeared in three hours.
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