Word: ebb
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...forms result from accumulation of aqueous humor, a fluid that is generated behind the lens and then flows to the front of the eye, bringing nourishment and washing away waste products. In a normal eye, the humor drains as it is produced, maintaining a constant ebb and flow. But in those with glaucoma, the drainage canals are somehow blocked, leading to an increase in pressure. "Glaucoma is a plumbing problem," says H. Dunbar Hoskins of the San Francisco-based Foundation for Glaucoma Research. If left untreated, the pressure eventually harms the optic nerve. The reason for the buildup...
...privately threatened to destroy the Rabta plant in the past, and only a week before the fire confirmed that the factory had already produced up to 30 tons of mustard gas. The Israelis are eager to score points with Washington, with whom ! relations are at a low ebb. Bonn may be anxious to atone for the fact that a West German company helped build the facility...
...Today I think we would have to say that the working class struggle, in this country at least, is at a low ebb," says George Axeiotis, a member of ISO. "And that's not pessimism, it's realism...
...group debuts in May with an adaptation of Manuel Puig's The Kiss of the Spider Woman. The score is by John Kander and Fred Ebb (Cabaret) and the staging by Harold Prince (The Phantom of the Opera). Says Prince, winner of 16 Tony Awards for musicals: "I see this as an opportunity for young composers, lyricists, librettists and directors to have a career like I had -- to be able to experiment, to fail, and from those failures go on to create successes...
Even at low ebb, Havel was protected in some measure by his prominence abroad. Authorities made no effort to uproot him from the handsome granite apartment block built by his father and also tenanted by his brother, where Havel has room after room lined with books and videotapes, the elegance tempered by big beer-hall ashtrays, overflowing with butts, on seemingly every table. The car that the police most often vandalized was a white Mercedes. Although his manner is earthy and direct and his short, dumpy frame and mustache bring to mind a small, playful walrus, Havel still...