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What follows is less a slide down a slippery slope than a professional avalanche that results in either a dismissal or a narrow escape to the next "dream job," where, of course, the cycle repeats yet again.
The slope isn't all that slippery.
He points out that Weld favors legalizing marijuana for "medical purposes" (which conservatives place on the slippery slope toward complete legalization), favors providing addicts with clean needles (to prevent the spread of AIDS), and that he prosecuted few drug cases as a U.S. attorney.
In the present study, the 2° afferents were found to discharge with a slope of 0.6 spikes·sec -1/μm·msec -1and were the least sensitive of the three types of respiratory mechanoreceptors to dynamic changes in intercostal muscle fiber length.
Other moments of the distributions are readily apparent; the variance is inversely related to the slope at the median value of the function.