Word: braked
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...thinking this impulse will not lead to new radical groups' achieving political power and implementing a coherent political agenda. Though, in the process of trying to influence the course of events, the global left may invent an entirely new form of governance that will act as a strong brake on multinational corporations and the governments that serve their interests...
...show strength that may well turn into a half-point increase," says TIME Senior Business Writer Bernard Baumohl. "Even in increments, the rate increases eventually dim the outlook for profits, and that has an impact on the market. The Fed has been stepping more and more firmly on the brake to slow the economy, but investors are clearly uncertain as to whether the brakes have yet taken hold...
...were bearers of mostly bad tidings. In census after census, they reported that humanity was not just settling the planet but smothering it. It was not until the century was nearly two-thirds over that scientists and governments finally bestirred themselves to do something about it. The first great brake on population growth came in the early 1960s, with the development of the birth-control pill, a magic pharmacological bullet that made contraception easier--not to mention tidier--than it had ever been before. In 1969 the United Nations got in on the population game, creating the U.N. Population Fund...
...opposing forces. One is the expansion of space, which for more than 10 billion years has been carrying galaxies ever farther apart from one another. The other is the mutual gravitational force exerted by those galaxies and all the other stuff in the universe; it acts as a brake, slowing down the expansion rate...
Gemplus' Giry anticipates a global explosion in the use of smart cards. "The potential applications are innumerable and provide almost total security and reliability of identification," he says. Giry explains that the cards themselves are inexpensive to produce, so that the only brake on use has been unwillingness of merchants to invest in readers and communications devices. The countries that have not adopted smart cards have been waiting until losses from fraud and theft start to outweigh the costs of updating hardware...