Fiscal surpluses in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries rose to new records, and internal debts were attenuated.

In addition, the significance of clean hands criterion lay in the fact that it was a circumstance which attenuated or aggravated international legal responsibility.

So, the audience is dispersed, focused attention and dramatic build up and climax are all replaced by a kind of attenuated attention that's sustained by a sense of apprehension caused by the fog.

The history of vaccinology is one in which biomedical and technological advances usher in the next generation of vaccines. In the 1950 s, a breakthrough that enabled viruses to grow in tissue cultures led to the development of both live attenuated vaccines and inactivated vaccines for measles, polio, and other diseases.

Investors could take this as an indication that policies had deteriorated significantly and rush for the exits. This danger would be attenuated if pre qualification was not a yes or no decision if there were a range of facilities for which countries could be pre qualified, they could be moved between them as circumstances changed.

When all deposit withdrawals were capped in November 2001, the resulting liquidity crunch deepened the recession and, eventually, brought down the government. By contrast, the restructuring of term deposits in January 2002 attenuated the bank run and kept the payments system alive, while allowing so called sight deposits which can be withdrawn immediately without penalty to help build demand for pesos.

With respect to residual proliferation concerns, the accompanying note assesses that the risk of Iraqi expertise or material advancing the weapons of mass destruction potential in other countries is attenuated by many factors and is presently small but not to be ignored and that, so far, insurgent efforts to attain unconventional weapons have been limited and contained by coalition actions.