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This gives network executives three choices: 1) They can keep coming up with new shows but risk losing the audiences from the last ones; 2) They can find a way to retard characters' development; or 3) They can figure out how to let characters grow without abandoning of original concept for the show.
In addition, although glucose and, to a lesser extent, sorbitol retard seed germination rates, both additives retard mobilization of storage lipids to a significantly greater extent than seed germination.
The data in this study may also be relevant to current efforts to develop a therapeutic AIDS vaccine designed to retard disease progression rather than prevent infection, since they suggest that durable maintenance of low-level viremia may be difficult to achieve.
But to act as though wrongs only matter when they happen to women, or to assume that women are never in the wrong when they have conflicts with men, is to retard progress toward a goal that even Shalit might enjoy.
Both 0.3 M Glc and 0.4 M sorbitol + 0.03 M Glc also retard seed germination rates (Figure 4).