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Postwar, the British military presence dwindled, and the main sections of the dockyard were closed in 1951.
However, the loss of Arabic wealth and the silting up of the River Arade left Silves almost literally high and dry, and by the time the bishopric of the Algarve was transferred to Faro in 1577, the town’s population had dwindled to 140.
In addition, he said several foundations that give money to the LAF have seen their endowments shrink with the declining stock market, and the money available from the Interest on Lawyers Trust Accounts program also has dwindled as interest rates have approached zero.
Having consistently urged the use of ground forces, the paper finally recognized in an editorial that "the possibility of a ground attack has dwindled."
According to the NYT lead, the governor of the Bank of Japan told Rubin and Greenspan that the capital behind his nation's top 19 banks has dwindled so low that if international rules requiring capital on hand to be at least 8 percent of total outstanding loans were strictly enforced, they might be banned from operating overseas.