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The report cautioned that it is too early to determine what caused the rate to slacken.

Last year — amid a stagnating economy and slackening labor market — it reached record highs.

It was only by goal number 10 that the pace slackened.

For Congress to even contemplate a slackening of the regulation that already exists is nothing short of absurd.

No breed stood out, and all were bested on the same tests by wolves and coyotes-perhaps, the study's authors say, because domestication slackened the evolutionary pressure for a sharp olfactory sense to find food.