Word: retards
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...adopted by a San Diego bookkeeper and his wife, Peter and Frances Louganis, when he was nine months old. Because his biological father was Samoan, Greg had dark skin that targeted him as a "nigger"; because he was dyslexic and a stutterer, he was often called a "retard." While his mother encouraged him to take dancing classes, his father virtually ignored his "sissy" son. Growing up with all those stigmas would have been pure hell had the nine-year-old boy not discovered diving...
Bill Clinton, addicted to compromise, is again close to foolishly splitting the difference on a crucial foreign policy issue. The question this time is whether the U.S. should continue or retard the growing two-way trade between America and China. By June 3, the President must decide to extend or revoke Beijing's most-favored-nation trading status...
...antibody could also retard the growth of malignant tumors since it is retained in the endoplasmic reticulum, a part of the cell where proteins that produce mutated cancer cells are processed...
...addition, Bush cynically stymied every attempt to punish--even mildly--the Chinese government. By vetoing legislation to retard the sale of Chinese exports to the United States, Bush kept cash flowing into the Chinese economy by means of most favored nation status...
...Houston, Baker warned Shevardnadze that resorting to repression could damage superpower relations. At the same time critics charge that propping up Gorbachev's failing economy could retard rather than promote reform, especially since the aid is being delivered to central authorities instead of the individual republics. Gorbachev has come under fire for balking at truly radical market solutions, settling for half measures. Critics say he is undermining his commitment to private enterprise by trying to root out the thug-infested black market when he should be encouraging its entrepreneurial spirit...