And that's exactly what the President believed and why the President believed we needed a strong recovery and reinvestment plan to begin to change the curve in many of those states.
Only at larger doses does the mortality curve change course and head upward.
Williams, who mixes his 95-mph fastball with a change-up and curve, has struck out 45 and walked just six in 52 innings.
We are more likely to make this transformational change when the initial curve is still on the rise, since resources, energy and confidence are high.
Now, no one is suggesting there is nothing Facebook can do to change the slope of the curve ever again.
In the past a product's shape alterations would be hammered out by designers in a surface-modeling program, a tool that allows for easy curve design and concept change.
Regardless of your role as a worker, business owner, manager or leader, the ability to stay ahead of the curve when dealing with change is an asset that cannot be replaced.
The process that Cowen describes would produce a gradual bend in the curve of progress, not the sudden change in slope that actually occurred.
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Their rhetoric often implies not only that lower tax rates stimulate economic activity and tax revenue and that that higher tax rates depressed economic activity and tax revenue, but they often go further and imply that any change in tax rates would be so powerful as to have Laffer-curve effects.
Most economic analyses of climate change concentrate on the likeliest outcome the highest point in the probability curve.
Both buyers and sellers then have the parameters to agree on a fair price, which Painter says typically settles in the lowest quartile of all transactions (the left side of the bell curve) compared to the lowest 6 percent of transactions before the change.
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Change in electrical potential was measured before and after application and a dose-response curve was constructed with R2 value of 99.92%.
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It means the 1939 kick seen in the nitrate "curve" above also incorporates some the delayed response from the land-use change brought about by the introduction of arable subsidies in 1917.
Businesses need to build an adaptable model that can change with the times, and continuously re-evaluate their model to stay ahead of the curve.
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This is a change from the more abstract arguments he used last year: how a health care overhaul would bend the cost curve and help the federal budget.
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