At least in a world where everything is a slight variation on the flattish silver box.
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Most of the technology sector is flattish with corporate spending on information technology becalmed.
Their common denominator is flattish revenues, declining operating margins and little or no earnings momentum.
The latest figures supported the view that the economy had been "flattish" in the past few quarters, he added.
The governing metric is capacity utilization for the country and it shows a flattish line at the mid-seventies level.
Sales of chips into standard cellular phones and personal computers, he said, would likely reflect the "flattish" global demand for those products.
The British CBI survey posted its biggest decline in three years in November, coming in at -19 instead of expected flattish level.
Vegas casinos are posting flattish gaming numbers while Macau continues its tear.
Consumer spending reaccelerated in July after a couple flattish months.
No disaster like Nokia, Motorola and Research in Motion but nevertheless destined to sell at 10 times flattish earnings, just another electronics hardware operator.
He expects the stock is fairly valued and will be flattish.
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This assumes flattish tech earnings and energy's numbers cut in half.
Investors, on the other hand, should well recall similar predictions of flattish budgets ten years ago, when hardly anyone saw the tidal wave of change then to come.
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Keep pursuing radical tax reform of the flattish-consumption variety.
For one thing, the ratings business, despite being flattish right now as risk aversion cuts into debt issuance in some areas, remains very much alive contributing a little more than half of operating profit.
An in a flattish market, valuation matters.
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Studies of the blowout preventer's two control pods suggest that a flattish battery and a dodgy valve meant that neither was in a fit state to close off the well automatically when they should have, which BP takes as evidence of poor maintenance by Transocean.
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