1.   But the Gowanus, a Robert Moses project, cast the avenue into an inhospitable shadow, and businesses there withered and died.

2.   China is important to Motorola, not least because its mobile-phone business has withered elsewhere.

3.   The analog business is hardly withering, analysts say.

4.   Without this new energy, ambition and imagination, the restaurant business would wither.

5.   As its business has withered, Andersen has been selling assets piece by piece, with many of its former employees joining other firms that bought the segments.

6.   To put it plainly, without modern telecommunications, domestic businesses wither.