Deficit reduction and bending the debt growth curve down is also extremely important for the United States.
It would be particularly harmful because the Fed has been trying to keep the long end of the yield curve down through its quantitative easing programs and other stimulus.
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There's no reason in the world that MRI scanning technology can't ride the same Moore's Law cost curve, going down 50% every 18 months.
"He's certainly having fun, " she says, as her husband, who's never driven anything faster than the family car before this, fishtails out of a curve and accelerates down the backstretch.
Financial institutions can play help aggregate demand and run down the cost curve of the industry.
Repeaters can solve the penetration problem and we know that technology moves swiftly down the price curve.
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As oil production slows, prices will rise up and down the futures curve, stimulating new technology and conservation.
Intermediaries who can package and deliver products to large-scale wealth holders with the objective of running down the cost curve are one solution.
This is also the point in time where there is no longer an opportunity to make money from rolling down the yield curve.
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From the landing pages, offer educational materials such as blogs, eBooks, whitepapers and webinars, or demos, product sheets, price quotes and ROI calculators for those further down the learning curve.
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Since the GE engine was begun later and not based on any prior design, its team is not as far down the learning curve and thus is likely to produce a less reliable engine.
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The modern Philips Curve model shows that pushing down unemployment results not merely in a corresponding one-time jump in inflation, but in spiraling, ever-increasing inflation, as consumers factor in the expectations of higher future prices.
The sudden swing to hawkishness, which emerged in speeches delivered since the January meeting, helped push the domestic yield curve up and bond prices down as markets started to price in higher rates in the future.
And most importantly, its costs would drop below its price and as the company gained market share, it could raise prices to customers who bought the product after the company had gone way down the learning curve.
Calabrese says that many poisons follow, instead, a U-shaped curve: The death rate goes down as the dose climbs from zero to a certain small amount, what you could call the optimal exposure.
While Apple is well known for not disclosing what it is going to do this does seem to put to rest the company moving down the price point curve and not coming out with a lower quality, less feature rich smartphone.
Treasury yields have been going down along the entire yield curve since 1983.
The new security-industrial complex will grow, because we need it and because this economic juggernaut will take us down the now familiar tech curve of declining costs.
We watched one sitting on the high riverbank, stretching its legs and wandering along the curve of the river, before slumping down in a preferable place further along.
And given the fact that HSAs, and similar high deductible health insurance options, are about the only type of health coverage bending down the health care cost curve, they may even thrive.
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One of the things that he's talked about, Wendell, is ensuring that we're making progress on health care reform as a way of bringing that deficit down, and changing the curve on our health care spending through Medicare and Medicaid.
For more than a year it has been able to ride the yield curve profitably as the Fed kept interest rates down.
But we may now be at the apex of this trend, and already sliding down the other side of the bell curve.
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Tim Probert, president of global business lines, says that horizontal drilling, a process in which a well is drilled down vertically and then angled around a curve to reach reservoirs from a horizontal angle that increases the well's exposure, is now 55% of Halliburton's total activity.
Alexandre Tombini, the affable central banker from Brazil, tried to brush off long-term concerns when I asked if the president's economic team was behind the curve when it repeatedly slashed interest rates to combat a slow-down.
"The quality has gone down, " says Brown, who runs the hedge fund Second Curve Capital and dishes out barbs on his Web site, Bankstocks.com.
Hitting, standing, doubling-down, splitting and buying insurance all enter into it, but the learning curve is a piece of cake.
She appears in red with twisted and distorted limbs, fingernails that curve into large hook shapes and white hair that appears like a cloud out of head and down her back.
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