In trucks equipped with the eight-speed transmission, the Ram can activate its (optional) aero-shutters, which block off portions of the grille to reduce aerodynamic drag.

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These include a radical shake-up of labour laws, reform of the public sector, and a drive to promote competition and reduce the tariffs charged by the privatised utilities, seen by Alliance economists as a big drag on business.

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As the car straightens out and gains speed, the airfoils automatically trim out to reduce drag.

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And remember, if you reduce government spending, in the short run that is a drag on the economy, so you are guaranteeing slower growth in the short run.

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And, similar to Dyson, Lugg is proposing to achieve these radical efficiencies by coordinating multiple engine systems (analogous to the acceleration, inducement and entrainment of the Air Multiplier) to create optimal conditions for each stage of flight and to use the excess energy the system produces to create a plasma field to reduce drag and eliminate sonic boom.

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The company is busily installing "winglets, " upward-pointing extensions at wingtips that reduce aerodynamic drag and save fuel.

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Livingston is smart enough not to reduce her subjects to the sum of their possible meanings, perhaps because she realizes that the way the drag performers manipulate image and fetishes and the iconography of popular culture is for many of them a sophisticated form of humor.

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Deepening the dimples, for example, promotes added backspin, lift and drag, all of which reduce distance.

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