51.   President Clinton and his aides have a running joke in these waning days of his administration.

52.   Republican Bush also has said little about the issue in the waning days of the campaign.

53.   Retail sales are expected to get a big lift this weekend as shoppers flock to stores in the waning days of the holiday shopping season.

54.   Seizing on those reports, Bob Dole has made the corrosive influence of foreign money in U.S. politics a central theme in the waning days of his campaign.

55.   Set in the waning days of flower power, the movie portrays a generation whose idealism had its poisonous side.

56.   Set in the waning days of flower power, the movie is a portrait of a generation whose idealism had its poisonous side.

57.   Some Democrats are said to be ready to retreat on campaign reform in the waning days of this congressional session.

58.   That would be one way, anyway, to have them with her for each second of these waning days of high school and for the beginning of college.

59.   The award has provided new vigor for passage of proposed tort reform laws that seemed all but dead in the waning days of the state legislative session.

60.   The Bush campaign Friday suggested the drunk driving revelation in the waning days of the campaign was the product of dirty politics.