Every tide has its ebb.

It is unlikely that Musharraf s latest gambit will succeed, as his popular support is at its lowest ebb.

With American influence at low ebb, the world is in danger of sliding into a vicious cycle of escalating violence.

Its popularity can ebb quickly when it becomes associated with crippling and systemic failure, whether on the battlefield as in France in 1940 or in the corporate boardroom and on the factory floor.

With American influence at low ebb, the world is in danger of sliding into a vicious cycle of escalating violence. We can escape it only if we Americans repudiate the war on terror as a false metaphor.

In a rapidly growing develop ing country whose financial system is still im mature, introducing exchange rate flexibility in order to insulate domestic macroeconomic policy from the ebb and flow of international payments, as the IMF advocates, is an even more questionable strategy.

NEW DELHI For 18 days, during the ebb and flow of protest, it did not seem possible that the end of the Egyptian Revolution would come so suddenly, in a terse announcement that lasted no more than a half minute President Hosni Mubarak has relinquished office .

On the contrary, democracy s strength lies not just in its character, but in its achievements as well. Its popularity can ebb quickly when it becomes associated with crippling and systemic failure, whether on the battlefield as in France in 1940 or in the corporate boardroom and on the factory floor.