Word: retarding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Valencia ordered a 90-day embargo on nearly all imports, hoping to protect the country's depleted dollar reserves. But the ban is more likely to retard industrial expansion and hobble the country's social and economic development. "I am doing all I can," shrugs Valencia. "I am a poor bullfighter with a bad troupe and a very demanding audience...
...good deal more than tariffs serves to retard trade within LAFTA. Political and monetary upheavals discourage long-range trade deals, and export financing is hard to come by in Latin America's tight capital markets. The Latin nations produce roughly the same kinds of basic commodities, sell little to one another. Railroads, highways and ports in many areas range from primitive to nonexistent, and shipping is in short supply. "To intensify trade," says Ecuador's National Planner Raul Paez Calle, "we must have an infrastructure of communications, transport, power supply and, perhaps more important, a human infrastructure...
...Kistner thought these aging women should have medical help. "Another common consequence of their reduced output of estrogens," he said, "is that intercourse becomes painful. This leads to marital difficulties and is a factor in many cases of philandering by middle-aged husbands. If we can prevent or retard these changes of senescence, we can help to keep the women happier and their husbands as well...
McCloskey noted that graduate students usually take seven years to complete their doctoral dissertations in History while Government students take four. In History the fellowship plan would "speed up" thesis writing, he said, but it would only retard work in Government...
...almost all of them come off. To make a shock scene jump and jitter, he boldly yanks occasional frames out of the sequence. To emphasize an idea, he brutally amputates an episode in mid-speech and lets a phrase fall through the mind like a severed hand. To retard a rhythm or invite a second thought, he serves up a fade so slow it seems like a memory. To enrich his theme and variegate his texture, he abruptly interjects a two-minute "quote" from another movie and later for the same reasons rabbets in some paragraphs of Edgar Allan...