Hints and tips:
...This is a bank whose share price decline and strategic astigmatism have forced it to consider a merger with weak domestic rival Commerzbank, itself 15 per cent owned by the German government....
...Before Montana, my outlook on life was a teenage astigmatism. Blurry with little perspective. I left with better vision and the inkling that it’s valuable to seek out alien experiences....
...At Specsavers on Tottenham Court Road, London, an optician confirmed what I had guessed: I had astigmatisms in both eyes, and while I could see all too clearly into the far distance, up close a blurry haze...
...Laser surgery is now common as a corrective treatment for sight deficiencies such as nearsightedness or astigmatism but, as Prof Bille recalls, the first laser technology started only in 1960....
...Over pasta and peas, Whittern tells me how he became a community support officer after finding out he couldn’t join the Royal Air Force because he suffers from astigmatism....
...The fact that El Greco suffered from astigmatism may or may not be helpful in getting closer to his work. “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,/ Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”...
...And being intelligent too, he knew that mispronunciations can be Freudian slips: that some deep, unconscious instinct of contempt for the artistic astigmatism that is cinema (in some culture pontiffs’ views...
International Edition