"I had to return this product because it is only for bananas that curve to the right and I can only find bananas that curve to the left, " a one-star reviewer complained.

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Moreover, the curve was skewed to the right, with a long tail, however slender, of patients who lived many years longer than the eight-month median.

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It seems like a lot more people reside in the red area of the curve than to the far right of the chart, where knowledge is plentiful.

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Guys and gals on the far right of the bell curve are fleeing like Olympic sprinters to the new economy.

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Rudolph Giuliani, former New York mayor, his campaign seems to be on the right curve right now.

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When we ran that Curve 8900 review a couple weeks back, we were taken aback by the number of people writing in to ask what kind of phone was pictured to the right of the Curve in our lead-off image.

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Life's real financial struggles are not about chasing yields, finding the right mutual fund or when to buy gold, they are about the curve balls fate throws us and our loved ones.

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Mr Weitzman reckons they should look instead at events that are less likely to materialise but cannot be ruled out (the right-hand tail of the curve), such as a massive temperature increase within a century.

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Most people believe that an inverted yield curve heralds a recession, and right now we have an inverted yield curve at the point where new money is supposed to enter the economy.

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