Word: retarder
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During the 1970s, political elites converted the rage of the 1960s into settled convictions and organizational forms. Two convictions were of special importance: the United States shall abandon an interventionist role in world affairs and retard the rate of domestic economic growth. Military power should be renounced and industrial expansion denounced. It is not hard to sympathize with such concerns: ravaged villages in Vietnam and foul air over Los Angeles are not pretty sights or monuments to moral progress...
...induces deep sleep for short periods (90 min. at most) and might be an alternative to general anesthesia in surgery. Another drug, called only No. 5057, could improve memory and other mental functions by allowing more oxygen to reach brain cells. Roche Researcher Willy Haefely says this could help retard senility "or sharpen the mind of an executive suffering from a hangover." He concedes that "unfortunately, we will never be able to produce geniuses with drugs." But if Roche can develop another winner like Valium, it might ease much of the anxiety at company headquarters in Basel...
...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...
...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...