Word: wane
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International terrorism may have been on the wane in recent years, but Friday's simultaneous bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania indicates what may be a new trend: "With airline security having been beefed up and U.S. embassies in the Middle East now heavily fortified, we may see an increase in car-bomb attacks at more vulnerable facilities," says TIME correspondent Douglas Waller. "Africa has traditionally been a low-risk area and our embassies there aren't heavily protected. But these attacks show that terrorists prefer the path of least resistance...
...part, Sharif told TIME, "I still feel we can make progress through bilateral negotiations and talks." Pakistani enthusiasm for a nuclear-arms race may quickly wane under the fierce bite of the same U.S. sanctions slapped on India, because Pakistan depends far more on international loans. "They are wrong to say the costs would be manageable," insists Mahbub ul Haq, a former Pakistani Finance Minister...
...stereotype it evokes of Southern blacks, the Lowell House dining hall may be an inappropriate place to hang it, particularly because it was purchased by the former dining hall manager as a nice piece of decoration. Nonetheless, these issues are debatable. Political correctness is somewhat on the wane, but we are still hypersensitive to offending people. So the instant a student charges that the poster hanging in her dining hall is "racist," it is immediately removed--without discussion or an examination of the relevant context...
Wright was not elected in the fall, but hisinterest in campus politics didn't wane. He ranagain in the spring, and this time the campaignwas a success...