Word: waning
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...ones whom he has helped to cure. In the meantime, there is the interminable process of living. Diagnosis is simply a gauge for determining what stage the wasting-away process has reached. Chekhov is a great diagnostician, a man with an immensely vital sense of life on the wane...
DiCara's political career has not exactly been on the wane during his stay at Harvard. His name started appearing on ballots as soon as the Class of '71 arrived in Cambridge. He made it onto the Freshman Council, though losing the race for chairmanship to the class's other aspiring politician, John Hanify of HUC (Harvard Undergraduate Council) fame. Later, DiCara became a part of the HUC, SFAC (Student-Faculty Advisory Committee), and the Quincy House Committee, which he chaired his final year...
...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...