Word: wanes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most puzzling to the police was why now, with most of its hard-core members dead or serving long prison terms and its extreme left-wing ideology on the wane, the group had chosen to strike. There is still a commando group of about 15 members at large in West Germany. Some security experts doubt that the Herrhausen murder signals a new wave of R.A.F. terror. But, declared Heinrich Boge, head of the Bundeskriminalamt, which coordinates federal criminal investigations, "there was never any indication that they were giving...
...snicker, alright. But maybe he'll take a little closer look at the boxscore and his snicker will begin to wane. He'll notice Harvard's leading scorer, Ron Mitchell, pumped in 17 points--on 8-for-13 shooting from the field--and pulled down seven rebounds. He'll see that Mitchell took charge of last night's game. And in the back of his mind, he'll remember Mitchell as the "recruit that got away" two years...
...latter half of this decade it has become too apparent that the conservative right is no longer willing to tolerate affirmative action policies as a means of redressing past injustices. This harsh new era has also seen the zeal of the Civil Rights Movement wane in a generation that did not experience the horrors of sanctioned and institutionalized racism...
...Opinion in government quarters was that the go-ahead for the march was an important signal to the security establishment that the excessive influence in enjoyed during the P.W. Botha era was on the wane," the newspaper said...
...stronger than those of most of his academic critics. Diplomats who have seen him during the past two months believe that he remains in good form for a person of his age. But he is surely aware that his political power, especially among the young, is on the wane. He can afford to allow university students to let off steam occasionally in pursuit of democracy or in memory of a fallen hero. The test will come if, when the ceremonies for Hu are past, the engine of protest should suddenly roar out of control...