That helps explain why Motorola's venerable RAZR series remains staggeringly high on Nielsen's latest US phone usage report -- third place, to be exact, at 2.3 percent of all subscribers behind the iPhone 3G at 4 percent and RIM's BlackBerry Curve line at 3.7 percent.
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It is probably still on the flat line of the curve.
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In addition to mastery of traditional calligraphy, the art of engraving requires a high degree of virtuosity, since the artist works on a tiny surface area where every curve, every thickness of line counts.
Furman, meanwhile, describes the current economy as aflat line on the CSR phenomenon curve.
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Such rates of Greenland ice loss were barely larger than the margin of error in their readings, making it difficult to discern any difference between a supposed loss curve on a graph from a straight line.
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Bringing that ratio in line with peers would flatten the cost curve for decades.
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But as one of our great American educators once said, if you drew a line through all the valleys and all the peaks, that line would be drawn with an upward curve.
In fact, fitting any simple curve to the data does no better than the straight line.
Libertarianism that puts political liberty first is conceptually undedicated to holding the line on this or that point on the Laffer curve.
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Plotting the exponential curve of this development on logarithmic paper, Moore was please to see a straight line .
To create a faux molding, a straight edge and pencil are used to draw a line, then shading is added with paint to give the look of a curve.
The bottom line is that no one knows for sure if health reform will "bend the curve" of increasing medical spending.
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