1.   Nor does it mean the quality of research will be affected by level of popularity among scientists and laymen.

2.   On top of that, he enjoys an unusually untainted popularity among activists and grass-roots trade unionists.

3.   All this has vaulted Arafat to high levels of popularity among his people, where before many of them called him ineffectual and his government corrupt.

4.   Also gaining popularity among leisure riders are comfort bikes.

5.   Always a popular flower in old-style gardens, zinnia, with its big pinwheel flowers, enjoys ever wider popularity among gardeners and commercial growers alike.

6.   And the large amount of work it requires has limited its popularity among patients.

7.   Annuities gained popularity among baby boomers because they give fixed payments that can be used in retirement.

8.   Any future government that denies the Taliban a role is doomed to failure, Pakistani officials say, because the fundamentalist regime has grassroots popularity among traditionalist Pashtuns.

9.   As a result of that and his constant refrain that he wants to die a martyr, his popularity among the Palestinian people has never been higher.

10.   As he made his rounds Monday, Kemp was still getting used to his new-found popularity among the Republican faithful gathering here to nominate Dole for president.