Mayors have tried to buy popularity with showy projects, such as new roads, while neglecting routine maintenance and services.

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If the site's popularity is anything to go buy, it's a model that's proved tremendously successful.

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ZANU-PF party has watched its popularity eroding, it has tried to buy back support at the expense of the economy.

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Fourteen years of no-new-nuke-orders later, uranium mining's drop in popularity came with the post-Cold War decision to buy Soviet weapons and turn them into reactor-grade fuel.

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