1.   Gore could not afford to run the risk of seeing his hard-won political gains evaporate in a populist revolt over fuel costs.

2.   The election results were widely expected, though, and the gains evaporated in European trading.

3.   The cuts did not materialize, and the gains soon evaporated.

4.   There has also been more emphasis on training teachers, on improving the lowest-performing schools and on improving middle schools, where educational gains often evaporate.

5.   To be sure, those financial market gains evaporated late in the day, tugging the dollar down from its highs.

6.   Yet those gains soon evaporated as traders bet another Bundesbank rate reduction would probably be its last, because the economy is showing signs of recovery.