| 1 | But is the sun finally setting on the public company? | |
| 2 | Dialects are already slowly dying in Singapore. | |
| 3 | Dick Cheney, the hawkish vice-president, has seen his influence wane. | |
| 4 | They do in MP3 players, but that is a dying industry. | |
| 5 | Some Western consumer-goods firms that are also-rans at home do surprisingly well in China. |