The sorry answer is that while U.N. ambitions and spending have soared, U.N. reform efforts have largely fizzled.
The 43-year-old Galli (pronounced GAL-eye) has painted visions of greatness before, but they have fizzled out.
The Merck effort against ras was the subject of front-page stories years ago before it fizzled.
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As the rally in the stock market fizzled last Wednesday, it was taken calmly by most.
All too many of the winners have fizzled rather than dominated the pop charts.
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In eighth place is a movie which has actually fizzled -- at least domestically.
But the probe seems to have fizzled out (the SEC refuses to comment on investigations).
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The history of diet supplements is rife with fads that fizzled or proved dangerous to health.
In the U.S., the rally picked up steam thanks to improved economic data before it fizzled.
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Mr Rakowski's career fizzled out, fittingly, in an abortive bid for the Polish senate in 2005.
Sit-ins continued on the following day, but with the summer break looming they quickly fizzled.
The biggest new drug launch, for the anti-smoking pill Chantix, fizzled over worries about psychiatric side effects.
Time Warner was to be a big customer, but then its much-hyped network project in Orlando, Florida, fizzled.
The centre's kick through proved too strong for wing Richard Fussell, though, as the first half fizzled out.
Hendrie's introduction gave Villa far more menace but in the end the game fizzled out into a draw.
But the match soon fizzled back to a turgid, one-paced affair littered with mis-placed passes and little sparkle.
With that chance missed, the challenge of Inverness fizzled out and Celtic controlled the ball for long spells.
The selling was pretty relentless all week, and early rally attempts fizzled quickly.
But regardless of the reasons why, the intraday rally fizzled and stocks were sold into the closing bell Friday.
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His majority fizzled to nothing as the details emerged and public pressure mounted.
Facebook predecessors MySpace and Friendster shone brightly but fizzled once finicky teenagers moved on to the next big thing.
His career fizzled quickly, and by 2003 he was out of the league.
Start out with good intentions but found out your resolutions fizzled by March?
Time Warner was to be a big customer, but then its much-hyped network project in Orlando, Fla. infamously fizzled.
Yet even as the formal opposition has fizzled, an informal one is rising.
Then, just as quickly, the writers dismantled that bomb: the affair became risky, then absurd, and then it fizzled.
By then Mr Howard may hope that the Hanson effect will have fizzled.
That trendlet lasted a couple weeks before it fizzled under its own nonsense.
The participants say tag has helped preserve friendships that otherwise may have fizzled.
And yet fixed-rate mortgages are still rather common, and two attempts to build a market in CPI futures have fizzled.
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