Only thrusters could slow the lander to its target velocity of 1.7 miles per hour.
Guarente feels that drugs that target SIRT1 might slow aging and have wide effects on other, more testable diseases, such as cancer and heart disease.
The governor of the Bank of England seemed to let George Osborne off the hook on Thursday night, in his TV interview for Channel 4, when he said it would be OK for the chancellor to miss his debt target because of slow economic growth.
True, and necessary, but it establishes a dynamic in which the weak and slow are the near-immediate target of derision.
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The target was definitely a bit too slow and all of a sudden Jenson was right up on my tail.
But in May Giuliano Amato, the treasury minister, caused a stir when he admitted to his European counterparts that because of its slow growth Italy would miss the 2% target.
Competitors like Target and Costco are expected to report slow sales at the beginning of 2013.
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Military spending has increased at a similar rate for most of the past two decades, but this year's increase comes as China's overall economic growth begins to slow, with parliament approving an official GDP growth target of 7.5% for the second year running, compared with an average growth of more than 10% for most of the past decade.
Such action, if effective, would also slow the economy and might cause inflation to undershoot its target.
After a slow start, the exchange is close to meeting its target of grabbing 10% of the trading in continental equities.
Military spending has increased at a similar rate for most of the past two decades, but this year's increase comes as China's overall economic growth begins to slow, with parliament expected to approve an official GDP growth target of 7.5% for the second year running, compared with an average of more than 10% for most of the past decade.
But it seems to be in no hurry to meet this target, as the licensing process for new power plants has been slow.
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The tourists' pace attack carved through the Indian middle order to leave them at 166-6 at tea on day four, but, concerned by the slow over rate, Ponting was forced to turn to slow bowlers Cameron White, Mike Hussey and Michael Clarke to reach their overs target.
Match referee Chris Broad later fined Australia's players 15% of their match fees for a slow over-rate, after they were found to be three overs short of their target when time allowances were taken into consideration.
Given the slow progress in attempts to curb CO2 emissions at successive climate change talks, many experts believe that target to be unrealistic.
Professor Egil Lillestol of Bergen University has been pushing thorium for some years now, and thinks that Norway should set the trend in building a prototype accelerator-driven reactor in which a massive particle accelerator converts thorium-232 to uranium-233 by irradiating it with slow (spallation) neutrons generated by the impact of a 1.6 GeV proton beam on a lead target.
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