If schools expand too fast, they will lose popularity and pupils and be forced to shrink.

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Frank Newport, the editor-in-chief of the Gallup Poll, notes that most presidents lose popularity after their election.

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It may equally have to subject its armed militias to the PA's collective decisions and may start to lose popularity as it grapples with the mundane difficulties of government.

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And once in power, notes Peter Mair of the European University Institute in Florence, governments lose popularity more quickly, not least because they are constrained by decisions taken in Brussels.

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And yet it was Clinton who had the most to lose: Monica's popularity ratings have been close to the single digits for months, while the President, riding a muscular market and peaceable times, seemed invulnerable to redefinition no matter how lurid the rumors of his personal conduct.

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Clients fret that the agency's popularity will mean they lose some of the partners' personal focus.

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