BC From this point, we're going to decelerate from 12,500 miles an hour down to 900 miles an hour.

BC In the first 15 seconds after we deploy the parachute, we'll decelerate from 900 miles an hour to a relatively slow 250 miles an hour.

Our delegations hold the view that preventing an arms race in outer space is an easier task than attempting to control and decelerate such a race after it has begun.

We would point out once again that it is an easier task to prevent an arms race in outer space than to attempt to control and decelerate such a race after it has begun.

But a realistic assessment of growth prospects is precisely what is needed right now to design appropriate and feasible policies. Gordon s point is not that growth will decelerate in the future, but rather that underlying productivity growth moved to a sharply lower trajectory around the year 2000.

The consensus of opinion is that the economy of China should decelerate gradually to a more sustainable pace in 2005 and beyond and by so doing would provide ample policy space for countries and economies in the subregion, as well as in the wider ESCAP region, to adjust.

PRINCETON In a provocative recent paper, Robert Gordon of Northwestern University concludes that the rate of technological progress has slowed sharply, and that the rise in standards of living (at least in the world s rich countries) is thus set to decelerate. In the twentieth century, he says, per capita income in the United States doubled about every 25 30 years.