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Screech of Bats and Brakes Answer
Similarly, no one really believes that raising the Fed funds rate from 5.25 percent to 5.50 percent is going to put the brakes on economic growth (although the gradual rise from 4.75 percent to 5.50 percent has to have had some effect).
Hats off to Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Dominici, who is trying to put the brakes on the Republicans' heedless zeal to pass a tax-cut bill in order to provoke a presidential veto they can then use in the 2000 campaign.
Cells were pelleted at 400 g for five minutes without brakes, the supernatant was decanted and the pellet was loosened by vortexing at setting 4. Cells were washed with 1% BSA/PBS and repelleted.
But the increase would certainly have slammed the brakes on an economy that's still running very hot.