In 1983, its funds having dwindled to virtually nothing, the organization closed its doors.

His funds had dwindled these past few years; too many rumors had curbed his activities.

The fund that insures more than $800 billion in deposits in the nation's 3,200 savings and loan associations has dwindled to the precariously low level of $2 billion.

Oh, and if we ever get back to real business, make sure the voters understand it's better to let Social Security funds dwindle while we cut capital gains taxes.

As his funds dwindle toward the end of his senior year, he slowly divests himself of his possessions and he eats less and less.

But over the next decades, the funds dwindled, while there seemed to be an ever-increasing number of people in need.

So unfortunate-the funds dwindled, investments brought in so much less . . . and rising costs. . . of course there were faults of administration.

The family discovered that funds that had once held $25 million had dwindled to scarcely $3 million.

Without them, the fund has dwindled from a high of $3.8 billion in 1996 to a projected $28 million next year.

The fund had dwindled from $390,000 in spring 2009 to just $15,000 in February 2010.