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A clear signal that the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal is atrophying: The "Clinton and the Media" and "Politics '98" threads all but mirrored each other this week.
He believed religion was atrophying under the deadly dogmatism of the Roman church.
Budget cuts and boring, noncombat peacekeeping missions are atrophying our troops' battle-readiness.
I also had to overcome some grownup resistance to the books themselves, mostly owing to the atrophying of my capacity for the kind of flashlight-under-the-covers, breathless absorption you evoke so nicely.