She downloaded quality reports that detailed complication rates for valve surgery patients at each hospital, grading them on a curve based on how sick the patients were before surgery.
Google is, essentially, pursuing the exponentially advancing technology curve while car makers are betting on the incremental curve.
It tells me to open my BlackBerry App World on the Curve and scan the barcode on its screen.
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.
Microsoft is widely criticized as being behind the curve on developing an operating system for tablets.
The business world is still behind the curve on training its in-house marketing teams to be true data scientists.
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"If anything, Wal-Mart is a little behind the curve on this, " Hoff says.
They've been trying -- they would market and create vehicles that were ahead of the curve on fuel efficiency.
Liz Gannes of technology blog AllThingsD said she believed users would have a bit of a learning curve on their hands.
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The learning curve on operating the drone was steep, and Mr. Goodwin says he has crashed the carbon-fiber copter a few times.
The pair was returning from a friend's house when the father failed to make a steep curve on the road, the girl told police.
The Obama administration continues to be behind the power curve on the evolving uprisings in the Middle East, particularly those in Libya and Iran.
It looks like once again the Fed will be dangerously behind the curve on a bubble, as it was in the stock market and housing bubbles.
Warren Buffet might be behind the curve on this one.
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Being ahead of the curve on new developments to retail such as mobile payments and app-based loyalty schemes also may allow Starbucks to adapt to quickly shifting consumer habits.
In fact, Bernerd was so far ahead of the curve on this one that she's probably dying her hair an allover blonde by now to start a new trend.
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The goal of the seminar is to keep attendees ahead of the curve on topics that include gamification, mobile commerce, apps, social media, SEO, and a variety of other digital marketing tactics.
Just as the Japanese have the auto business right, America is ahead of the curve on the business of baseball if huge increases in attendance and franchise values over the past 20 years are any indication.
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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And instead of relying on handwriting recognition that resulted in egg freckles all over the face of Newton, used the Graffiti system that forced a small learning curve on the user in the name of increased accuracy.
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The requirement, drawn up after Robert Maxwell robbed his companies' pensions funds in the early 1990s, attempts to assess the present value of pension funds' future liabilities, taking the yield curve on gilts as its reference point.
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Dr. ORSZAG: Well, the key to our long-term fiscal future is actually improving the efficiency of the health care system, and I think there's a lot that can be done there to bring - to bend the curve on health care costs.
On the smelting side, about 45% of all smelters in China are in the top of the cost curve, and 78% of refineries are on the top half of the cost curve.
Mercedes then bought the team, based in Oxfordshire, England, in 2010 and it is once again on an upward curve, taking three pole positions and two third-places on the podium so far in 2013.
Then we average the scores for the two ups and assign grades on the curve.
Finally, it is true that both statements can be true at times: it depends where on the curve you are.
Weiss, as successful artist and sculptor in his own right, designed the bottle itself based on the curve of a woman's back.
Rather, they exist on the curve, evaluating trends first, then following.
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Dr. Arthur Laffer developed the Laffer Curve based on a simple premise: at 100% taxation any incentive for work or investment ceases, eliminating the ability to collect taxes.
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