Word: tapering
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...javelin of steel, its streaking taper ending in a needle tip, that seems to arc through the air even while lying still...
...first place, says Father Zimmerman, various factors will probably slow down the explosion so that production can catch up with it. The increased longevity that is partially responsible for the boom will soon begin to taper off. And as agricultural societies become more industrial and modern, men and women will begin to marry later in life, thus taking considerable edge off their fertility. Such factors, Father Zimmerman optimistically opines, may trim the population rate of growth by as much...
...equipment and brought a change in the corporate name to Smith-Corona Marchant. Out came a stream of new products. Among them: a new line of small calculators, and two compact, electronic business machines-the Typetronic 2215 and 6615-which are basically educated typewriters. Linked to either a punch taper or a computer, they can do such tasks as filling out orders and calculating accounts. Smith-Corona also will have on the market within a year a photo copier that may turn out to be its hottest product yet: a desktop size, electrostatic model, which will reproduce letters...
...bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found out it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs-it's the speed with which you swing it. So now everyone uses a bat with a thin handle and a long taper, so that most of the wood's in the end. You can whip this one around and get power in your swing...
...vast majority taper off as they get older. Winick found that, of his subjects over 40, only two were still hooked on heroin. Explained one 43-year-old jazzman who had kicked the habit: "I guess I just diminuendoed...