While cultivating Istanbul's businessmen, she let True Path's rural roots wither.

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Mulally's got it half right: It's a crime that Ford allowed what was once America's best-selling car to wither on the vine.

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But as with most initiatives from Washington, the rush to return innovation to the center of U.S. economic policy will likely wither without a groundswell of popular support.

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"If you are a libertarian and you think that taxation equals theft, then you don't care much about this question because the answer you will get is, 'Well let's not get taxed and let's allow the various states to wither, '" he says.

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Despite the dollar's collapse, GM's U.S. market share has continued to wither, falling from 41% in 1985 to less than 25% today.

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In this environment, regulation and supervision didn't quite wither away, but it's fair to say they lost support and lost potency, partly as a matter of ideology but partly because the banks that were the most heavily regulated lost relative importance in the market so there was overall less regulation.

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Big markdowns have the potential to undermine profits and disrupt the fragile balance that has allowed most of the major players in the U.S. industry to make money, even as profits wither elsewhere in the world.

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Meanwhile, uncorrupt, globally competitive companies like Matsushita, Toyota and Sony are accounting for an ever greater share of Japan's GDP while inefficient, corrupt sectors like construction, distribution and agriculture wither.

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