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The author has published several articles on second-order differential equations of the type \(x''(t)= t^\beta x^{1+\alpha}\), following earlier work of Saito, and also of the type and \(x''(t)= e^{\alpha\lambda t}\) or \(x''(t)= -e^{\alpha\lambda t}\), with Cauchy's initial conditions. The present paper continues this work. Here, \(\alpha< 0\) and \(\lambda< 0\), which differs from cases considered earlier. The main theorem takes almost two pages to be stated. Under the assumption that there exists a bound on the initial value of the first derivative at \(t= t_0\), the author shows numerous properties of the solution defined on a specified interval. The equations discussed here include as special cases some important equations of physics, such as the Emden equation of astrophysics.