Word: slow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interception, the only Air Force jets with the right type of radar to detect low-flying planes are supersonic; but if they slow to the 150 m.p.h. of the suspect prop planes, they will be near stalling speed. Even then they could do little but frighten the smugglers. The possibility of downing innocents almost certainly would preclude any shoot-to-kill orders to Air Force pilots...
...attempt to slow the development and to "get control of the city back from the developers" as one of the neighborhood group's leaders said. The plan will not solve the Square's problems but it is certainly a good first step. Cambridge certainly needs more affordable housing (rather than luxury apartments and expensive hotels) and the atmosphere of the Square needs to be preserved...
...crucial question is how high the Fed will let interest rates go in its effort to slow the economy and ward off inflation. The answer will have immense political as well as economic ramifications. In this presidential election year, the Republicans will jawbone the Fed, which now consists solely of Reagan appointees, to keep a lid on interest rates, while the Democrats will watch intently for any signs of partisan policymaking...
When victory over the virus is achieved, the wildly accelerating responses of the immune system slow, then shut down. Scientists believe that still other immune specialists, known as suppressor T cells, call off the battle. As the carnage wanes, the B cells and T cells perform a last, vastly important task: they form memory cells that circulate in the bloodstream and lymph system for many years, primed to spring into action should the same strain of flu virus ever attack again. In addition, the body is protected by specialized antibodies, strategically deployed in mucus, saliva and tears, that immediately recognize...
...sheep on a spread north of Sweetwater (pop. 12,242), and has hunted snakes since he was a boy. "They're a problem to livestock and people," he says. On and off since January, he has scoured the countryside for their dens, catching them while they're "cold" -- hibernating, slow moving. Now he and the other hunters will sell them for $3 per lb. at Sweetwater's 30th Annual Rattlesnake Roundup. The town's Jaycees, who organize the roundup as a community fund raiser, claim that of some 40 in the country, theirs is the largest and oldest, drawing crowds...