101.   Despite rumors of failing health, President Robert Mugabe last year easily won election to another five-year term.

102.   Earlier this summer, the Armenian church canceled a trip by Pope John Paul II to Armenia because of his failing health.

103.   Failing health has forced Yeltsin to take frequent breaks from work, and he went on a brief vacation in May at the Black Sea resort of Sochi.

104.   For months, rumors and unofficial reports have been circulating of his failing health and even imminent death.

105.   Hass did not attend the court session because of failing health.

106.   He began passionately painting oil and watercolor portraits, recreating his loves and pastimes for a decade before his failing health forced him to stop.

107.   He had been in failing health for the past year, the brief report said.

108.   He had been in failing health for several years with a kidney disorder, according to officials at New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, N.C.

109.   He reportedly is in failing health.

110.   His political influence has waned somewhat in recent years because of his failing health.