Word: wanes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...morning and afternoon panels, the alumni heard several senior Harvard officials tell them that the period of disruptive protest seemed to be on the wane, and that the University was now preoccupied with such issues as educational reform, merger, relations with the community, and an imminent financial squeeze. The two panel sessions were taped and then broadcast over Chicago radio during the weekend...
...workers in the nation's proud and powerful building trades unions are among the highest paid in the land. For the most part, their jobs have been passed down, generally to friends or relatives, though nepotism is on the wane today. The building unionists have kept the door closed to most of the blacks who would like to join. Of the U.S.'s 1,300,000 card-carrying construction workers, only about 106,000 are black -and four-fifths of them are laborers, the lowest paid...
Nowadays, trapping is on the wane, a victim of the fake fur, depressed pelt prices, new roads and population growth. Such is the lure of the Alaskan wilderness, though, that perhaps 110 professional trappers are still at large. TIME's San Francisco Bureau Chief Jesse Birnbaum visited one of them, Missouri-born Joe Delia, 40, a tall, rugged woodsman with hard, spatulate fingers, a laughing face and an abiding love for the outdoors. Birnbaum's report...