• Only thrusters could slow the lander to its target velocity of 1.7 miles per hour.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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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.

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  • Such action, if effective, would also slow the economy and might cause inflation to undershoot its target.

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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 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.

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  • 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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  • 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.

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  • Given the slow progress in attempts to curb CO2 emissions at successive climate change talks, many experts believe that target to be unrealistic.

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  • 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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