Word: braking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...well...nothing. During the past 23 months, the Fed has made only one change in interest rates: a quarter-point increase last March. But standing pat in this case is a positive accomplishment. Greenspan has resisted pressure from nervous Nellies inside and outside the Fed to slam a monetary brake on the economy. The nation's foremost inflation hawk now seems to accept the idea that unlike in the past, deep changes in the economy have made sustained growth possible without pushing prices...
Foale reckoned wrong. When Progress was little more than 3,500 ft. away, Tsibliyev noticed the solar panels growing faster than they should. Saying nothing, he hit his joysticks hard, applying a propulsive brake. Progress kept coming. He hit the sticks again. The ship sped on. "Michael," Tsibliyev said to Foale, "try getting a range mark...
McGreevey contends that Whitman had four years to find a way to brake the runaway insurance premiums, without results. Whitman responds that she has a good plan now, which would lower rates for drivers who agree in most cases not to sue for pain-and-suffering damages. She condemns McGreevey's proposal, in which he would simply order insurance companies to roll back rates, as unconstitutional. On the property-tax battlefront, McGreevey charges that Whitman's much celebrated cuts in state taxes have forced property taxes up by shifting the revenue-raising burden to school districts and other local authorities...
...closer than seven miles above the Martian hardscrabble and two minutes from landing, a 40-ft. parachute opened. Less than 1,000 ft. up, a swaddling of shock-absorbing airbags inflated. Immediately after that, a cluster of retrorockets fired for a quick 2-sec. burst, applying a final brake. The almost comically balloonlike ship then struck the surface at about 22 m.p.h., bounced as high as 50 ft. and finally came to rest somewhere in the 4.6 billion-year-old dust...
...steering the car? Nobody. In the front, where the driver should be, is a hulking metal contraption that looks like an out-of-place engine part. It is bolted to the Jeep's brake pedal, accelerator and steering wheel. Thick cables connect it to the computer that occupies the passenger seat. This vehicle is, essentially, a Jeep-shaped robot...