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...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...
...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...