Hurricanes are fueled by warm water, and cooling the waters surrounding a storm would slow a storm's momentum.
It's well known that you can slow a device's clock to save energy.
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Another would be to slow a pulsar's spin down in pretty short order.
Strong vehicle sales (17.2 million sold last year) have shielded them from worse times, but sales will slow a bit this year.
Intel's new Pentium 4 microprocessor sizzles at an average 110 watts, hot enough to whip up a batch of muffins--and slow a PC's advertised performance.
This system, Positive Train Control (PTC), is intended to stop or slow a train automatically if a driver goes too fast or passes a red signal.
What's more, a failed expatriate hire can be a costly mistake and slow a firm's progress in the region, said Phil Johnston, a managing director at recruiter Spencer Stuart.
When shoppers look back at their overall waiting experience, they tend to put more weight on how fast or slow a line moved toward the end of their wait.
Once, many moons ago, I spent a month in Iceland with too little money and nothing to slow a march of days that seemed already to be getting much too short.
That can slow a project's timetable considerably, but agency officials over the years have maintained the approach gives them deeper understanding of potential design weaknesses and how to respond when failures occur.
In other words, China is planning deliberately to allow its ten percent growth rate to slow a bit in order to give the Chinese people more of the fruits of their own labor.
About the mortgage deduction and the charitable deduction, last year when that was proposed for this year, 2011, it seemed as though even among some Democrats on the Hill that there was considerable resistance to that idea, especially in a slow mortgage market or a slow housing market.
"There can actually be a slow and a fast lane, " he said.
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Because while a TV show that starts off with slow ratings is still going to hit every possible TV screen until its completely pulled, a movie with slow box office will usually shrink its footprint, meaning the chances of finding a slow-growing movie gem is harder.
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They use them as a litigation weapon to slow down a competitor.
You might never have heard of a Slow Loris but a clip on YouTube shows why it's becoming so appealing to own one as a pet.
It was hardly the best preparation for facing the world number two and not surprisingly the 32-year-old made a slow start, a huge mistake against Nadal.
In continuing studies of obese, sedentary but otherwise healthy middle-aged women, Dr. Ekkekakis found that some individuals reach their ventilatory threshold after just one minute at a slow pace on a treadmill.
Ponting made a slow start on a pitch that was proving difficult to score off but quickly grew in confidence, smashing four sixes and two fours to post his 14th one-day international ton, before being dismissed in the 49th over.
But an industry that doesn't need too much space, and brings in a lot of money and not too many people, also seems like a good prospect for a city that wants to slow down a bit.
The AFC's top seed, New England, is 13-3 and has won eight in a row despite a pass defense that couldn't slow down a Nerf game on the beach.
He kept an eye on the five when they moved off in a bunch, causing an oncoming car to slow to a crawl as they crossed the street.
With help from signals from roadside markers and traffic lights, in-car computers will be able to determine if a car should slam on the brakes, alert the driver to a passing vehicle in the blind spot or slow for a red light up ahead that another driver isn't heeding.
As I write, the notoriously secretive company has not even confirmed that an event is taking place - but it has to put a new device out soon or sales will surely slow to a trickle because the current models will look very last year to fickle phone buyers.
Cost cutting, shrinking profit margins and a slow economy have influenced a lot of bad decision making.
For example, on a slow rainy Tuesday, a business could offer a special deal that only lasts for three hours.
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If she landed in New York or San Francisco, especially, she might find video downloads a bit slow and drop a few calls.
One morning, after wearing the same clothes for two days, I ventured to bathe in a slow-moving stream a few hundred meters from Thmar Baing.
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