PAGAD's mass support withered, however, when it started attacking non-gangsters.

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Spin itself has withered somewhat since its heyday in the 1990s, when it was closely identified with the rise of alternative rock, but it still has a circulation of 350, 000.

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It is perhaps not surprising that Americans so virulently hate taxes: as their sense of political participation has withered, they feel that their forefathers' complaint against taxation without representation is relevant once more.

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Around eighteen months after launch, Nokia bought the company, the management team shattered and drifted apart, and Dopplr simply withered and died on the Web 2.0 tree, while the users could do little but watch it stumble and fall.

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