Word: wane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps nobody will be happier about the wane of the English tourist season than Prince William. The heir to the British throne just began his first year at Eton, long a side attraction to Windsor Castle. But now, according to British papers, double-decker bus tours slow when they pass the school and local entrepreneurs sell T shirts reading where there's a will...
Arnold's nervousness may have another source: his sense that show-biz careers wane more easily than they wax. "Good things don't always last," he says. "Even great stars like Schwarzenegger have had some very rough spots in their lives and their careers." The stand-up comic who went from Mr. Roseanne to Mr. Who? has more reason than most to heed that lesson--even from the top of the heap...
HAVE A WELL-TRAINED PHYSICIAN EXAMINE 10 patients a day, and without doubt good care will be provided. But increase that number to 50 patients a day, and see what happens. Even Michael Jordan's dexterity would wane if Jordan were called upon to play three games a night...
...from congressional colleagues, and has won six consecutive Republican Party straw polls--in Arkansas, Louisiana, Arizona, Missouri, California and South Carolina--many party members, particularly those in the Northeast and Midwest, continue to downplay his chances of winning the Republican nomination in 1996. But the doubters are beginning to wane. "Having known him for 24 years," says longtime Texas political foe Chet Edwards, a Democratic Congressman, "I say anybody who doesn't take Phil Gramm seriously either doesn't know him or is crazy...
People claim that after these strikes and lockouts end, enthusiasm for the sport will wane and attendance will drop off dramatically. That is ridiculous. Hockey attendance may suffer a little at first, but the true fans, the people you want there anyway, will show...