Word: compressibility
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...common to the tropics in which vision gradually becomes obscured as a layer of tissue encroaches over the cornea. The traditional cure used by healers is leaves of Centella asiatica, a ground-hugging vine, which Salome chews into a poultice, smears on a cloth and then places as a compress on the afflicted eye for three consecutive nights...
...really necessary to compress a parade of the greatest personages of this century into yet another totally meaningless list? I suspect there are not enough pages in any edition of TIME to include all those people who have made important contributions to our world. LEE SNIDER New York City...
...knew that for maybe half of the students in the course it would be wasted," he says, adding that he had to compress the material of the first week's lectures into the rest of the semester...
...truly new etiquette rule on the books, especially for mobile phones, although even it has a historic precedent. In the old postal system, which charged the recipient rather than the sender, the polite letter writer was supposed to be reasonably sure the communication would be welcome and to compress the missive so as to keep the cost down. Now the polite telephoner is obligated to restrict the number and length of calls to mobile users, knowing the recipient incurs costs...
...plaintiffs uncovered a great deal of evidence they did not use simply because they needed to compress their case and hit the jury with the strongest and most incontrovertible facts. Among the unused evidence: the notes of a West Los Angeles therapist who had separately treated Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman and who wrote down Nicole's account of being beaten by Simpson in the days just before the murders; and the recollections of a Connecticut limousine driver who described to the plaintiffs during deposition how, during a trip from a board meeting at the Forschner Group, a knife company...