It's like a blind turn on a highway: You can't see what's coming, so you don't really know how to prepare.
You can swing it like a bat or a golf club, turn it like a steering wheel, or punch with it like a boxer.
And if Europe's economy does look like taking a turn for the worse, they can always change their minds.
How much of this strategy actually materializes -- and how effective it is at changing the direction of the platform at large -- remains to be seen, but it sounds like a promising turn of events.
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That gives an implied growth rate of 45%, and a number like that can turn a lot of heads.
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Even if Mr Serra is at last making a persuasive case, overturning a 14-point lead in just four weeks would be like performing a handbrake turn in a ten-tonne truck.
The fundamental model we teach MBAs for thinking about manufacturing is the value chain, a simple model that describes the value adding steps that take a low value material like iron ore and turn it into a high value product like a Ferrari Testarossa.
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The company has recently patented ideas like whacking a phone to turn it off, described at theFinancial Review, and an immersive full-room display like a Star Trek Holodeck, described by Ars Technica.
The fear that really prompted French intervention and that guaranteed it wide-spread support was the nightmare that a vast area like northern Mali could turn into ungoverned space providing a sanctuary for AQIM.
Now we'd like to turn to a story that more than five months later is still painful.
And, despite several shortcomings, it is a welcome victory: this was a crisis that had to come if Pakistan were ever to turn into something like a functioning democracy, and it is as well that it has been decided in favour of a government that was freely elected with a huge majority only ten months ago.
That, in turn, has set off a race among companies like SpotCrime to turn crime data into mash-ups of maps and analytics, producing charts and graphs in Web-friendly formats.
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John McCain, for example, people like me wondered whether this would turn out to be a year like 1976 or 1980, when the challengers to the front-runners -- Ronald Reagan to Gerald Ford, then Ted Kennedy to Jimmy Carter -- pressed their case all the way to the convention.
For a pricey show like Mad Men to continue it needs to turn a good profit.
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His work would later take a more abstract turn, shimmering, like jewel boxes, and a little blurred, with a distorted sense of time and place and with mysterious, lonely figures.
Like any CEO hired from outside to turn around a company in distress, and like any parent expecting the first child, Mayer may not know what she is getting into.
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Like many politicians of a revolutionary turn of mind, Barbara Castle was of the middle class.
The bitumen coats the grains of sand like a film and is in turn surrounded by water.
What at first looks a lot like a Diablo RPG transforms into a much more interesting looking turn-based game.
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"It's like a Surrealistic joke, to turn such an iconic structure upside down and bend its image, " said Mr. Recoder.
Weeks like that turn into "a very intense battle, " says Mr. Stein.
While no one expects the Greek settlement to have systemic implications, it does set the precedent for any subsequent restructurings, which could take on added importance if big, troubled peripherals like Spain or Italy take a turn for the worse.
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The times players post can often be written off as unimportant at a number of positions where speed isn't vital, and perhaps it's just as important to note: A fantastic athlete that posts freakish combine numbers, like a Vernon Gholston, can turn out to be an on-field bust.
People from the other tables had gone to bed: in the sudden silence we distinctly heard the deep roar of a serac, like the bones of a giant trying in vain to turn over in his bed of rock.
Democrats did well, signaling a mild turn to the left, quite like that seen in England a year ago and in Germany this fall.
"Bush has never had to pull off a U-turn like the one he is contemplating now, " Duffy says.
Wall Street has fought the Dodd-Frank financial reforms at every turn, acting like a three-year-old deprived of his security blanket.
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As for rotary dials and buttons, Mr. Fisher says they make it harder to do maneuvers like parallel parking or a K-turn that require rapid and repeated shifts.
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They doubtless would like their space adventures to turn a profit, but at heart they are modern-day pioneers who want to do something profoundly important for the future of humankind.
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