This mighty apparition, whose legs curve up the drill like the arches in a Gothic cathedral, was one of the first robots to emerge in Western art.
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.
The pleasing, textured backplate ends abruptly on the edges instead of continuing to curve gently up to the front face, forming hard lines that dig into your palms.
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For now, however, investors focused on the short-end of the curve lapping up both euribor and the two-year schatz contracts helping remove downward pressure on bonds that has recently lifted yields to the highest in 29 months.
And we think of any kind of problem or phenomenon as naturally following the distribution where there's a few people at one end who have no problem, a few people at the other who have, you know, a kind of little bit of a problem, and then there's a big broad middle and the curve goes up.
Managing risk has turned out to be a big part of their learning curve while starting up in Kenya.
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Coal and gas are still way bigger than oil or nukes in our grid, but my point is really just that an exponential curve can catch up with a linear one in a surprising way. 14% doubling every few years means we could be only a decade away from 100% clean energy.
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And CMS reported yesterday that the cost curve is actually bending up, from 6.1 percent to 6.3 percent, post-health care legislation.
Williams, who mixes his 95-mph fastball with a change-up and curve, has struck out 45 and walked just six in 52 innings.
Everything from Great Depression Keynesians to Depression retreading Chicago School monatarists to Laffer Curve idealists have offered up and applied programs the last 8 years intended to stimulate growth.
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In the meantime engineers will have their hands full trying to keep up with the curve.
The business community is drunk on a stock market boom that is far up the risk curve.
On their part Indian companies are gingerly moving up the innovation curve and want to share the risks.
But this drops to 22% as companies move up the experience curve (with five or more years under their belts).
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The note from Bernstein shows that Wall Street, which was previously behind the curve, is now catching up with reality.
We see cost escalations as companies coming up the learning curve.
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The main advantage of this approach is that it might help an otherwise traditional and somewhat hide-bound corporation better understand the emerging opportunities, and aggressively move up the adoption curve.
Any rational assessment of innovation would see these companies rise and fall as their existing products go up the maturity curve and their labs and design teams figure out which markets are ripe for which new products.
Companies are moving up the technology curve.
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Luck may take you up to the head of the curve, but you can be a happy storyteller earning a decent wage without having to climb up that steep slope to the top.
On the right side of the page, the curve is nearly vertical, pointing up.
The winners, and ahead-of-the-curve losers, are already setting up the playing field for the new game.
At least 28 fans were injured when more than a dozen cars piled up in the final curve of Saturday's race.
The winning company will inevitably obtain an invaluable head start up the "learning curve" over any competitors for future undertakings of this kind.
With the goal of flattening the yield curve, the Fed may scoop up Treasuries in the hope of reigniting the equity and mortgage markets.
Admittedly, word prediction seemed to fare better for the company's (well-trained) reps than it did for us, but we'll chalk that up to a learning curve.
From a low of 5 million barrels per day in 2008 output has shot up in a hyperbolic curve to 7 million bpd as of last week.
At least 28 fans were injured when more than a dozen cars piled up in the final curve of the Nationwide Series Drive4COPD 300 in Daytona Beach, Florida, on Saturday.
Not only will this season be marked as being his last as a player, it will see him start taking on some coaching responsibilities to help current boss Graeme Souness and steer him up the managerial learning curve.
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