Word: retardate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Which express numerically a material's ability to retard the flow of heat...
Problems of translation--either from Russian to English, or from a culture that lived under Stalin to one that knows it only by report--retard Voinovich's humor, and thus his point, in the rest of the story...
...investment rather than consumption. Some steps in that direction were the Revenue Act of 1978, which slashed maximum capital gains taxes from 49% to 28%, and the appointment of the tough-minded Volcker to the Fed. Though a tight money policy temporarily holds back stock prices, it stands to retard inflation in the longer...
...resort hotel. The hotel is about as festive as Disney World in a hail storm; the characters are so familiar you can turn down the volume and speak their lines yourself. In addition to the two romantic leads (Larry Breeding and Stephanie Faracy), the kids include one fat social retard, one bookish wimp and one wealthy, lock-jawed Wasp. For added measure the writers have stirred in a cook who re-enacts John Belushi's samurai routine and a maitre d' who resembles Danny De Vito's dispatcher from Taxi. Everyone yells a lot, usually about food...
...nation will have to make the most of its available alternatives to oil, and to do that it will have to moderate some of its stringent environmental protection laws. The U.S. is the Saudi Arabia of coal, but a maze of regulations retard the mining, transportation and burning of coal, greatly inflating its price...