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Both sides, however, relished their chants and most shouts were accompanied with smiling faces. Then both demonstrations began to fade: the Democrats marched off, and the Republicans gathered to recite the Pledge of Allegiance...
...That fascination began to turn a corner in 1977," Kalb said. "What sympathy there was for Israel began to fade...when Menachem Begin became the prime minister of Israel...
There is a curmudgeonly line of argument that contends that campaign strategy, like most mystic arts, consists mainly of common sense buttressed by uncommon decisiveness. It is probably also true that Dukakis' July lead in the polls was destined to fade like a hothouse flower. The Massachusetts Governor, after all, is running against the heir to a popular President who is campaigning on peace and prosperity. But even so, it is hard to exaggerate the problems that Sasso inherited when for the second time he took the tiller of the foundering campaign...
Another aging American star also seemed to fade in Seoul's autumn light. America's best middle-distance runner ever, Mary Decker Slaney, 30, failed once again to win an Olympic gold medal. In her 3,000-meter heat, she gave everyone a surrealistic dose of deja vu by nearly tripping as she had in Los Angeles when she got her feet tangled with South African-born Zola Budd. Her time qualified her for the final, but did not put her in strong contention. In the deciding race she led the pack for several laps but faded long before...
Uncertain voters will be impressed by the barbs, the laughs and the cutting retorts or maybe by which candidate is better able to keep his cool. One would hope that someday these superficial issues--long a major factor in American elections--will fade in importance, and that political and ideological concerns will become paramount to every voter...