Word: wanes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent years, support of MSA activities has been on the wane. Last spring, the group's demonstration over Junior Parents Weekend--in protest of a lack of diversity in Harvard's faculty and curriculum--had a turnout of only about 20, compared to the 100-person protest...
Although Massachusetts has typically been a strongly Democratic state (it even went for George McGovern during President Nixon's landslide in 1972), the importance of the Democratic party as an institution has begun to wane, Altshuler says...
...widespread interest in the sport is beginning to wane. Some American sports fans complain that baseball is slow and boring. This generation of viewers prefers its news in five-second sound bites; in baseball, a pitcher may throw to first base a dozen times and a "good at-bat" can consist of a hitter fouling off ten pitches before putting the ball in play...
...large parts of the U.S. Southwest, brightening the sky like the grand finale of a fireworks display and causing many startled spectators instinctively to shield their face. Interspersed with occasional fireballs, the meteors reached an incredible peak rate of at least 40 per sec. before the bombardment began to wane. Some shooting stars continued to fall until their trails were obscured by the glare of the rising...
There was no sign last week that Yeltsin was in immediate danger of losing his post by impeachment or forced resignation. But his ability to ram through difficult economic decisions will continue to wane. "My best guess," says former Director of Central Intelligence Robert Gates, "is that the struggle will continue and that it will be a continuing drain on the reform process...