The process that Cowen describes would produce a gradual bend in the curve of progress, not the sudden change in slope that actually occurred.
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The family nurse and the butler scaled the stairs in flying jumps and found him slumped in a chair, wan face seeking cover in the curve of his shoulder.
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.
At least 28 fans were injured when more than a dozen cars piled up in the final curve of Saturday's race.
But in the repeated curve of her thigh and calf he saw shapes like sea shells, with the luminescence and faint muscular rays of the great chambered nautilus.
Some had speculated the seating arrangements would force civility, as the two candidates and the moderator sat in proximity across the curve of a table.
He certainly deserves credit for being ahead of the curve, in warning of commodity inflation around the turn of the century, the dangers of the housing bubble and the dangers of excessive sovereign debt.
Given this possibility of simple exit from any and all of the European tax systems (and such exit does not require that one stays in the EU either) the theoretical peak of the Laffer Curve is lower in Europe than it is in the US. Where such exit is very much more difficult.
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For insight into the difference makers in this new environment, we studied the organizations who were ahead of the curve in the patient-centric, accountable, coordinated models that are about to become mainstream.
When we ran that Curve 8900 review a couple weeks back, we were taken aback by the number of people writing in to ask what kind of phone was pictured to the right of the Curve in our lead-off image.
Taken altogether, these pressures drop us to the bottom of the U in the U-shaped curve of happiness.
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Or, worst of all, given the gaudy carnival of the stock market in the 1990s, combined with the deflationary cost-curve of Moore's Law, is the U.S. diving once more into the maw of a 1929 slaughter?
To believe that is to believe that the arc of human evolution suddenly jumped the curve in the 1980s, producing a race of 300-pound men able to leap tall buildings and run the 40-yard dash like a bullet.
What is clear is that the pace of reform in Greece is behind the curve and the reduction of the deficit is proving hard to enforce as so much tax revenue vanishes because transactions are not booked through a cash register or special prices are established for cash based i.e. no trail transactions.
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.
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 fact that something like 70% of trading volumes are now from high frequency activity means that we are way behind the curve in terms of policing this stuff.
In the UK we seem to be a little over that peak of the curve in our taxation.
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.
That's a key attribute in a teen style landscape that has the masses behind the curve of those on the leading edge, resulting in delayed purchases as kids sort out who's wearing what.
Red Fish, Blue Fish in Victoria, British Columbia, sailed ahead of the curve in 2007 with its waterfront sustainable seafood shack in a container that once transported cars.
Inventor and author Ray Kurzweil claims we are living in the knee of the curve: the sharp bend upward.
Since small deviations are common and large ones are rare, the result of plotting data in this way is a curve shaped somewhat like the cross-section of a bell.
The BlackBerry maker continues to grow in Latin America, for example, due to the success of the Curve 8520 entry-level model, which has helped drive growth in most emerging markets.
The slope of the yield curve can be measured in varying ways but is conventionally thought of as the long-term government bond rate minus the short-term government bond rate.
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With the goal of flattening the yield curve, the Fed may scoop up Treasuries in the hope of reigniting the equity and mortgage markets.
Recently there was an article in The New Yorker that talked about all the cost savings and how important they are going to be in terms of bending the cost curve over the long term.
Eurodollar futures plunged at the sight of another strong posting and within minutes reflected a surge in implied yields of 17 basis points with the curve steepening at further maturities.
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You know, the United States historically became an economic superpower in part because we were ahead of the curve when it came to education -- establishing compulsory public high schools, using the G.
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In the early years of the ICT revolution, during the flat part of the exponential curve, progress seemed interesting but limited in its applications.
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