Bringing that ratio in line with peers would flatten the cost curve for decades.
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Also, there has to be an enormous learning curve for Mr. Moazed and his team.
Learning when to disclose her status has become part of the learning curve for Traylor.
It's also worth pointing out that there is somewhat of a learning curve for first-time users.
It's a learning curve for us, and we'll be back better and stronger next year for sure.
Second, the demand curve for oil futures is based on expectations and predictions and hope and fear.
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The spacebar and directional keys are strangely located, which might necessitate a learning curve for some users.
Yes, this is a learning curve for them but quite a few of their players are quite experienced already.
Meanwhile, Morningstar doesn't use a bell curve for its qualitative analyst ratings, which it launched more than a year ago.
The demand curve for physical oil is grounded in the real economics of electricity generation and powering factories and driving trucks.
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Additionally, Samsung is including a handful of desktop applications designed to soften the learning curve for people new to Windows 8.
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So, in economic terms, the demand curve for medical care skews upward.
Last season was a bit of a learning curve for me, playing in Europe and getting the opportunity under (Lennon's predecessor) Tony Mowbray.
What's more, many consumers aren't familiar with mobile payments, meaning that there will be a long learning curve for the technology to take hold.
The cushion of available oil will grow thin, and an unsettled atmosphere will likely translate into another spiky curve for oil prices this year.
The manager admitted that serving breakfast to the cast from the Regency has constituted something of a learning curve for him and chef Kevin Lasko.
But looking on the positive side the Brown Caps coach added it will be a good learning curve for some of the younger, less-experienced players.
"There's a learning curve for any new products, so our yield rates are increasing, " said Mr. Lin, although he declined to comment on any Apple products.
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Conforto insists that scrapbooking is simply maturing, not peaking, arguing that fast growth followed by a drop-off is a typical curve for hobbies in their infancy.
The Diamond and Saetz paper that tried to calculate the peak of the curve for the US tells us that for federal income tax is probably around 54%.
Mortgages are bumping along at or near multi-decade lows and a flood of Treasury bond buyers has led to a very appealing yield curve for corporate and government borrowers.
In that context, speculation swirled that Apple might offer a historically high amount of initial debt to fund the program and establish a viable yield curve for an ongoing financing program.
There's also a slick tutorial that's sure to lower the learning curve for first-time users and seasoned aficionados alike -- something we initially skipped, but would have eased our transition to Ice Cream Sandwich.
With industry-wide challenges in scaling current areal density technologies, this new platform allows HGST to design seven-platter drives in a standard 3.5-inch form factor that will cost-effectively extend the capacity and cost-per-gigabyte curve for many product generations to come.
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He was a bright baby, though much more challenging then any of my other children, and well ahead of the developmental curve for many things, crawled early, walked early, began to talk early, but then about 14 months began to regress.
Ms. JOYCE LARTIG (UAW Local 7777): We had a lot of hurdles to get over, and the learning curve for both - for management as well as the union, because there are some things that occur, you know, in our eight hours that others may not even think.
One of the other things that has been a steep learning curve for us - painfully so, I may add -is that we have come to have unanimity on the fact that security is a precondition not only for the political progress that we have just been talking about the last 15 or so minutes, but also for economic and social progress.
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