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...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...
...however, is to begin the "historic and constructive debate" which the President called for. There can be no great debate over the strategic and technological implications of an agreement which does little more than move anti-ballistic warhead tests from the atmosphere to a hole in the ground and retard contamination...
...Birmingham demonstrations have forced the President's hand. His failure to defend the demonstrators publicly would not retard their efforts; and it might turn them against the democratic system itself. If the President and his brother ignore the real significance of "Birmingham," they will forfeit their influence on Negro action in the South...