"This doesn't look like we're entering some kind of downward spiral, " said Jonathan Basile, an economist at Credit Suisse.

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We are in an odd way a very snobbish nation but as Alan Bennett once said, snobbery is an amiable vice when it looks upwards, it's only when it looks downward it's horrible, if you look down on people because, if you admire in some way some style of eccentricity in other people there's nothing that wrong with it.

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Although downward-looking diagrams of the Main Asteroid Belt make it look incredibly dense, the region has significant gaps, clumps and clusters.

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Look at it from the side to see the angles at their most extreme: the sharp, downward-sloping nose and a low bonnet show off muscular wheel arches and gaping side vents.

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There are a few differences between the two, besides the cut-off top: In silhouette, the Roadster has a downward-sloping nose and a lower, smoother rear end that give it a slightly more polished look than the coupe.

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If you take a look at the Big Data tab of CrunchAnalytics, you can see that VC investments in big data followed the same downward trend, with the peak of venture capital funds raised by big data startups occurring in 2010.

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