He painted the walls with a mixture of lime to retard crumbling and hung muslin on the ceiling to catch falling dirt, just as the settlers did.

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As workers all, we produce in order to consume, and when unnatural obstacles retard our ability to trade our labor for what we want, we face a tax, along with a certain loss of liberty.

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"They are trying to use an existing monopoly to retard introduction of new technology, " says Gary Reback, the Silicon Valley antitrust lawyer representing Netscape and other Microsoft competitors.

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The result of Mr. Clinton's constant interventions -- which unfairly raise hopes and tacitly excuse the very violence he claims to abhor -- has probably been to retard that day.

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So it tightens credit to retard economic growth.

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Attempting to retard this positive evolutionary process by stop-gap measures such as the present trade agreement with a reconfigured union will probably only result in increased estrangement and desperation on the part of the most independent republics.

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"If you think of the genetic diversity and the wide variety of cancer that were found, the simplest way I can imagine to extend the lives of the mice is to retard at least some important aspects of aging, " he says.

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Neither the long-term strategic interests of the United States nor the short-term interests of its taxpayers will be served if American resources continue to be squandered in ways that retard, rather than advance, this process.

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