41.   Barak took office hoping he could cement wide support for his peace efforts, but that hope quickly faded as his partners returned to their traditional positions.

42.   But any Costa Rican hopes faded in the final quarter hour.

43.   But hopes were fading for finding him.

44.   But hopes were fading that anyone would be found alive a full day and night after a whole mountainside thundered down and buried the seaside tunnel.

45.   But the tales of dramatic rescues have become fewer as hopes faded Monday of finding any more people alive after three cold nights.

46.   But those hopes faded Friday.

47.   But those hopes have faded in recent weeks as the U.S. administration concluded that Iran has added new frontiers in its pursuit of a radical Islamic agenda.

48.   Cranes and other heavy equipment are brought to the ruins of a collapsed shopping mall as hopes fade that rescuers will locate any more survivors in the wreckage.

49.   Exhausted rescuers used trained dogs to find survivors still buried in the ruins, but hopes faded of finding anyone still alive buried in the rubble.

50.   Hopes had faded of finding survivors, he said.