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Mr. Ramaswamy has already outlined his support for five-day workweeks at federal agencies, telling Tucker Carlson recently that such a mandate could lead to a “25 percent thinning out of the federal bureaucracy.”

What was at first a trickle became a stream and the crowds outside began to thin out.

“So he thinks, as the Russian ranks are thinned out by Ukraine, what a brilliant idea - why not let North Koreans do some of the fighting?”

The British national treasure made no conscious decision to stop theater but thinned out her commitments after her breast cancer diagnosis.

Playing on Trump’s crowd-size obsession, she invited viewers to attend a Trump rally, telling them they would see the crowds thinning out early as bored spectators headed for the doors.