A350 to revive the larger older plane, or whether they should let it wither on the wing.

ECONOMIST: Airbus has a small problem in the market for big jets

Republican Congressional leaders should not suggest to the American people that they want to save Medicare when in their heart, they want to see it wither away.

CNN: Senate poised to pass Republican budget

It is surely better to rethink the career structure of your employees than to see it wither (the proportion of professors at four-year universities who are on track to win tenure fell from 50% in 1997 to 39% ten years later).

ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

The agendas have been flimsy - it seems that both sides are happy for it to wither on the vine.

BBC: Charles Kennedy

There are many supporters of the European project who imply that unless the whole structure of treaties, summits, and memoranda carries on moving inexorably on, it will wither and die.

BBC: Why is Cameron's Europe speech so significant?

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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The stability pact would surely wither if its chief sponsor defied it for a fourth year running.

ECONOMIST: German economic policy

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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