The Premium Network graph (buys), although more expensive than the aggregate media, show an uptick at the top of the frequency curve due to the quality of the inventory with regards to user engagement.

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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.

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European contagion and municipal credit concerns have sparked a flight to quality in the treasury market pushing the 5-30-year curve out to 313bps.

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"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.

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Many management gurus, including Frederick Taylor, W. Edwards Deming (the founder of the quality movement), Henry Mintzberg and Bruce Henderson (the man behind the experience curve), were trained first as engineers.

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What I'm trying to do is figure out how do we bend the curve of costs so that we're getting more and more efficient care, higher-quality care, at less cost per person?

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The 25-year-old lefty with the slow, big-breaking curve has a 2.52 ERA in 10 career outings against the Yankees, including four straight quality starts last year.

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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.

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