There are so few air particles to create drag that a slow rotation can quickly accelerate into an uncontrollable spin.
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That does not mean that the economy will actually slow enough to drag year-end stock prices down, however.
Enid sat in the B-deck lounge and listened to the slow plant and drag of someone's walker- aided progress across the A-deck lounge above her.
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But higher speed limits are unlikely to drag the economy out of the slow lane.
The slow dimension makes time drag while leaving you free to speed around.
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If you're after performance, you can stay in lower gears longer for maximum acceleration and you can downshift, using drag from the engine to help slow the car.
Higher gas prices will be a slight drag, but not sufficient to significantly slow down the economy.
But oil prices have to correct when economies slow down, or else high energy costs drag things down even further.
"The main driver underpinning Moody's decision to downgrade the UK's government bond rating to AA1 is the increasing clarity that, despite considerable structural economic strengths, the UK's economic growth will remain sluggish over the next few years due to the anticipated slow growth of the global economy and the drag on the UK economy, " Moody's said.
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And slow growth in Western Europe will inevitably be a serious drag on Eastern Europe's exports.
Slow growth in demand from the U.S. will be a drag on price appreciation for industrial metals, oil, natural gas and coal.
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