1.   But as oil reserves dwindled over the past Decade, local school property taxes doubled to help make up the difference.

2.   And bank reserves have dwindled significantly.

3.   And in the western town of Throckmorton, officials are building a water supply pipeline at a time when reserves are dwindling.

4.   Brazil raised interest rates to defend its currency, choking domestic growth and causing its foreign exchange reserves to dwindle.

5.   But Part A now is spending more each month than it receives in taxes, so the reserve is rapidly dwindling.

6.   Food reserves are dwindling.

7.   Hard currency reserves are dwindling.

8.   Now countries like Taiwan are rethinking the wisdom of that strategy, having watched their reserves dwindle in buying power compared with the yen.

9.   Still, more and more refineries are being modified to handle heavy crude, and western Canada has large, untapped reserves, while its light reserves are dwindling.

10.   The action left the agency in limbo as its reserves dwindle and economic crises mount around the world.