Word: dampener
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...course, unions can have positive effects, such as providing an efficient mechanism for informing managers of employees’ concerns and (occasionally) resolving labor conflicts. Above all, at least in many supporters’ eyes, unions dampen pay inequality...
...That's what China's new investors think, too. Punters gathered to swap stocks and stories at the Beijing branch office of the China Galaxy Securities brokerage house on Jan. 29 certainly weren't letting a small drop in the market that day dampen their spirits. "I guess the fluctuation will go on for a while, maybe for another month or so," says Jiang Yulan, a trading aficionado, "but in a long term, the price will be going up by the end of this year." So confident are the assembled san hu that they don't even consider trading...
That's what China's new investors think too. Punters who gathered to swap stocks and stories at the Beijing branch of the China Galaxy Securities brokerage house on Jan. 29 weren't letting a small drop in the market that day dampen their spirits. "I guess the fluctuation will go on for a while, maybe another month or so," says Jiang Yulan, a trading aficionado, "but in a long term, the price will be going up by the end of this year...
Farah also imagines the day when we have what she calls a "neuro-correctional system" that could transform criminals into noncriminals. We already force sex offenders to take libido-dampening drugs or face denial of parole. A drug to dampen violent impulses might someday be similarly applied. That could, in theory, prevent crimes...
...phone and broadcast to an aghast world, were also a reminder of what has come since he was removed from power: vicious sectarian hatreds that intrude, as his brutality once did, upon every aspect of Iraqi life, including the final seconds of Saddam's. His death did nothing to dampen those hatreds. The celebrations over his execution lasted barely a day before the Shi'ite-Sunni war resumed in earnest, with scores of Iraqis killed in bomb blasts across the country. Among Sunnis, the images of Saddam's hanging sparked new anger at the Shi'ite-led government...