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...vitreous humor, the substance that fills two-thirds of the eyeball, is vital to vision. The clear, jelly-like material transmits light while maintaining the pressure that helps hold the retina in place. Hemorrhaging, which occurs often in severe diabetes, can cloud the vitreous and impair vision, and loss of its gel-like consistency can result in detachment of the retina. Both conditions can produce blindness...
Bennett denies any conflict of interest, saying that major stockholders should not disqualify themselves from serving on boards because that would "impair the private-enterprise system," and that a Treasurer learns valuable information by holding such a position and consequently improves his work...
This case indicates that intent, warning, and substantial impairment must be present to sustain a disturbance conviction at a public meeting. Therefore, if the same Court were to consider the Sanders incident, they would probably ask: did the defendants intend their expression of views substantially to impair the conduct of the meeting and were they given warning to cease at the time? Since the meeting occurred indoors in a university and was not a campaign rally, the Court, were it to hear such a case, might feel that the customs and usages of such an event would warrant a narrower...
Although the injury, a slash in the face that required 15 stitches, does not physically impair Cavanagh's play, the Harvard All-American reported last night that the pain was increasing and bothering him considerably...
Kagan explained yesterday that the viewing of such violence by young children "might impair the development of their psychological inhibition against aggression...