1.   Both support balancing the budget, and both oppose Republican proposals to slow the rate of growth in Medicare spending.

2.   All they would actually do, Gingrich said, is slow the rate of increase in spending.

3.   But aggressive cost containment has slowed those rates.

4.   But Claflin said that Wall Street was disappointed by mostly slowing rates of growth rather than declines in overall demand.

5.   But consumers may suffer if the winner jacks up prices, slows the rate of technical innovation or uses market power to sabotage competition.

6.   But the researchers could discern a trend indicating that vigorous activity slowed the rate of bone loss.

7.   Changes in the hippocampus may only slow the rate of retrieval from memory, he said, but not diminish its accuracy.

8.   Congressional Republicans maintain that there are no cuts for Medicare in their plan and that they are merely slowing its rate of increase to stabilize its finances.

9.   Current osteoporosis drugs work by slowing the rate of bone loss.

10.   Despite this complexity, some researchers believe they will find ways to slow the rate of human aging.