Word: retardate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greatest worry was that default would retard American-and hence international-economic recovery. Said a high West German official: "President Ford obviously does not understand the implications. A bankruptcy would, at the very best, endanger the U.S. economic rebound and most likely erode faith overseas in the American Government's economic seriousness. The question is whether, after a default, the banks will have the money-and the nerve-to provide the loans U.S. business needs to fuel the economic recovery." Warned Kurt Richebacher, general manager of the influential Dresdner Bank: "Default would have a considerable impact abroad on confidence...
...burst of inflation. But there is concern that the recent price rises may presage a move by some companies to seize on the first fragile signs of a rebound, to raise their prices. Any such trend, warns Albert Rees, director of the Council on Wage and Price Stability, would "retard the recovery very severely" by discouraging consumer buying...
...Communist leaders are painfully aware of the possible consequences of the price increases. Of the five uprisings that have shaken Eastern Europe since 1953, three stemmed directly from unpopular economic measures. Once again, Eastern European workers will be asked to make sacrifices. The increased fuel costs are bound to retard the growth of Eastern Europe's fertilizer, petrochemical and synthetic textile industries, and limit supplies of some consumer goods. Those goods will have to be sold to the Soviet Union to raise rubles, but Moscow is insisting on terms of trade that are likely to anger Eastern Europeans. Though...
...course, he killed someone, and that person can't do these things now either. But it was an accidental killing in a struggle to stop much greater killing--and no one can prove that it wasn't successful, that it didn't retard the Army's research enough to save a Vietnamese person's life. Ultimately, Armstrong is in prison because he took his responsibilities as a citizen in a murderous country seriously. He should go free...
Unknown in nature, such man-made compounds are becoming increasingly important. They have already been used to manufacture a group of catalysts-substances that stimulate or retard chemical reactions in which they themselves remain unaltered-used in the production of new supertough plastics, the drug L-dopa (for treating Parkinson's disease), low-lead fuels and other materials of industrial importance. The prize is especially gratifying to Wilkinson, who did most of his research while he was a junior faculty member at Harvard from 1950 to 1954. Because his senior colleagues were apparently unimpressed by his results, his contract...