But do you think - can you think of an example of this back-patting, you know, something that would justify all this ahead-of-the-curve-ness?
This is the so-called "curve-bending" that can last for decades.
But Massachusetts's universal health-care law has not (yet) bent the cost-curve, and Texas-style damage caps have not in fact increased doctor numbers.
You stare so intently at the road ahead--a wide but constant curve--that nothing registers peripherally but a background blur.
In addition, addressing our long-term growth trends will require structural and curve-bending reforms that are politically less likely to be present in a smaller package.
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The Yerkes-Dodson curve an upside-down U shape is still taught in psychology courses, and modern neuroscience has helped confirm it.
Always ahead of the spa-industry curve, especially in matters health-related, Canyon Ranch recently began offering a comprehensive biomarker exam, the Biophysical250, to clients at its Tucson and Lenox, Massachusetts locations. (Its Miami Beach residential community, Canyon Ranch Living, will start offering the test in July.) For more than two decades, Canyon Ranch's physicians have principally worked as "preventive health consultants, " according to corporate medical director Mark Liponis, M.
The M6 with the TwinTurbo V8's mesa-flat torque curve (500 pound-feet from 1, 500-5, 750 rpm) and multiplicity of gear ratios (seven-speed dual clutch transmission, the M-DCT) adds an uncanny effortlessness to the experience.
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As of now, select BB owners -- Pearl 8120, Pearl Flip 8220, Curve 8320, 8820, Curve 8900 and Bold 9000, officially -- can point their browsers here in order to get the OTA install going.
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The winners, and ahead-of-the-curve losers, are already setting up the playing field for the new game.
He may be right, but such curve-fitting reasoning is an example of confirmation bias.
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In the standard bell-curve, you will recall, mode, median and mean are all the same.
Surgeons liken it to putting a tractor-trailer into reverse gear and swerving flawlessly through a wicked S-curve.
To be conservative, we assume that it takes a few years for genuine curve-bending to kick in.
In a bell-curve distribution of probabilities, the range of possible events are clumped together around the average.
And almost all of the curve-bending measures have been abandoned in the fight to pass the bill.
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Even with more than 30 years in politics behind him, Mr Chirac has a steep learning-curve ahead.
He said his Laffer Curve-effect worked only at the highest income level where taxpayers can afford tax lawyers and accountants.
As for talent, it follows a bell-curve distribution, as in every other age, but today it follows stock options, too.
They will prevent the two monetary cures from inflicting that bad old J-curve bleeding of the patient to the point of death.
This non-linear tendency is why complex systems are more likely to follow a power-law probability distribution than the more familiar bell-curve distribution.
But our passion goes beyond this and focuses on: how do you systematically help management and organizations get to a higher-place on this S-curve?
Laffer-curve effects might well result from a substantial cut in the corporate tax rate, which would bring money stranded abroad back home to be taxed.
But the Obama Administration is only at the beginning of its economic learning curve--although it might be able to swallow a temporary cut of expatriate profits.
Such curve-based modelling has been a dream of games designers for years, but the mathematics behind the curves, and the processor power they demand, are daunting.
This is yet another example of how both the Denon and Marantz brands utilize ahead-of-the-curve innovations and technologies to take home entertainment to the next level.
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With the Fed probably behind-the-curve (as shown by dollar weakness), Treasury issues will take a back seat for financial markets until inflation and interest rates are resolved.
The first bent trumpets were in the shape of a flattened S-curve, but they were soon made obsolete by trumpets whose tubing was fashioned into an elongated oval coil.
Steve Greenberg, founder and CEO of S-Curve Records, was a disc jokey in Tel Aviv, Israel, when "Thriller" first dropped and witnessed first-hand how Jackson became an international icon.
It says that if in this space any closed-curve object, such as a rubber band, can be shrunk to a point, then the space is topologically equivalent to a sphere.
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