21.   Many analysts think North Korea also may be reluctant to deal with a South Korean president whose popularity is waning with just one year left in his term.

22.   The investigation was the latest in a series of corruption scandals involving the government of President Kim Dae-jung, whose popularity has waned in the past year.

23.   The Hanbo scandal compounded problems for President Kim, whose popularity has been waning following three weeks of labor protests that idled hundreds of auto and other export plants.

24.   The Hanbo scandal compounded problems for the Kim government whose popularity was waning following three weeks of labor protests that idled hundreds of auto and other export plants.

25.   Their popularity has waned in large parts of the country after many civilians were killed in the fighting.

26.   Though his popularity has waned in the United States, he continues to play to sold-out crowds elsewhere in the Americas and in Africa.

27.   Today its popularity is waning.

28.   Walesa, whose term as president ends in December, has seen his popularity wane in recent years.

29.   Zhirinovsky, a fiery nationalist whose national popularity has largely waned, was en route to a meeting with voters in Rostov, Interfax said.

30.   But the popularity waned after an agricultural chemical was detected in some US apples in early February.