Word: wet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...study shows that radiation treatments can help stem the progress of "wet" macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness. Vision was stabilized for at least a year in 60% of patients who received the radiation. One big advantage: it can be used on patients for whom laser surgery, the standard treatment, doesn't work...
...industrial challenge after another led Carrier to make refinement after refinement in his systems. In the early days of Carrier Corp., one of its testing grounds was wet macaroni. The company had guaranteed a pastamaker it could fix a moisture problem. Suddenly there were 10,000 lbs. of macaroni on the floor, in millions of bits, none of it drying worth a damn. The Chief was called in. The Chief arrived. Long trip, cleanup at the hotel, dinner, back to the macaroni factory. All night long, The Chief paced, The Chief thought, The Chief would suddenly leap up and march...
...week Diego at the Loft 57 JFK St. Tu-F 10-7 Sa 10-5 $35-$50 wash, cut and dry Colors--$85-$150 Perms--$85 Mix of male and female 20 No 10-30 min. La Flamme Barber Shop 21 Dunster St. M-Sa 7-6 $11 wet cut, blow dry Shampoo, cut and dry--$14 Most male 12 No 15 min.-1 hr. Alfred Hair Design Eight Eliot St. M 10-4 Tu-Th 9-7 F 9-6, Sa 9-5 $45 wash, cut and dry Colors, Highlights 60-40 female-male 4-6 Recommended <1 hour...
...leaves are down and wet enough to muffle bootsteps. Color gone from everything, except from larches and pines and, if it counts as color, the chipped-porcelain white of birches, ghosty in November dusk. It is just cold enough and bleak enough to call up a tribal recollection: an imminence of winter death in the air and desperation for warm meat to survive--the Neolithic memory that makes hunting poignant...
...crack shot, has hunted turkey and pheasant with shotguns and deer with bow and arrow. But in New York State, he cannot legally go after deer with a gun until he is 16. That doesn't matter today. Glenn is excited but silent, testing the wind with a wet finger, flicking his eyes through the woods like any good hunter, alert to motion...