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ebb

a. the flowing back of the tide from high to low water or the period in which this takes place

b. (as modifier): the ebb tide

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Enrollments in chemical engineering are also at a low ebb, so just being a newly minted chemical engineering department (and one out of nearly 160 nationally) may not be all that is required.

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They use interviews with company executives, especially in the high-tech field, to make a case that options really do make a difference in attracting and -- especially in recent years -- retaining key employees when a company's fortunes are at a low ebb. Of course, that may mean repricing options when the stock has fallen dramatically, never an easy sell to outside investors.

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Still, Shumway is seeing fewer fire sales than during previous times when the economy was at a low ebb. Less expensive homes in the $300,000 to half-million-dollar range are selling quickly.