Total worldwide shipments declined by more than 8 percent in either estimate -- enough to make a flat second quarter seem rosy by comparison.
The critical stage in their development was switching focus from trying to figure out how to make a cheaper hospital incubator to flat-out saving lives.
Advocates of a flat tax make two rejoinders.
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When producing a show for a cable or network channel, Hurwitz confessed that you have to make "flat" programming -- stuff that'll satisfy a huge, huge demographic.
Cerberus is going flat out to make Chrysler a case of two wheels good, four wheels better.
So a more realistic simulation of the impact of a flat tax is to make it revenue-neutral.
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Can she make good on her enthusiasm for a 15% flat tax, a policy that Law and Justice dismisses as unfair?
Using the flat allowance might make sense for a hybrid owner who uses little gas, while actual costs often work best for those with less-efficient cars.
Under the new grant funding regime, that "top-up" would be a replaced by flat payments right across a local authority area which small schools fear could make them proportionately worse off compared with bigger ones in larger communities.
Devotees make their own by brewing tea and sugar with a flat, solid mass of yeasts and bacteria.
One way of speeding things up would be to make chips in three dimensions, rather than on a flat plane as they are today.
There are coach doors, bench seats, and a flat floor with no divider to make the car more capacious and porous for entering and exiting.
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The Dutch electronics giant said the purchase will make it a leader in the rapidly expanding business of flat-panel screens for televisions and laptop computers.
When shopping for car insurance, airplane tickets or a flat-screen television, people make a point of getting price quotes first and carefully shopping around for the best value.
Cleveland has been ravaged by injuries, but it's tough to make excuses for a team that continues to come out flat, plays little or no defense and has blown big leads.
The heartbeat of American manufacturing was flat-lining and we had to make a choice.
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One could argue that a flat yield curve will force banks to make more and riskier loans.
Many of the world's best-known brands make a cult of simplicity: look at IKEA with its flat packs, McDonald's with its burgers or Berkshire Hathaway with its buy, improve and hold approach to investing.
In 2011, the yearly close was flat forming a doji, but it did make higher high for the year.
"I will never make a decision on my career when I'm really down and flat or when I'm really high or emotional, " he said.
The white paper is expected to remove complexity from the system and to make millions better off in retirement - the idea is to provide a flat pension payout that "everyone can build towards", according to BBC business correspondent Philip Hampsheir.
The flat panel displays, which make kaleidoscopic colors when jabbed with a finger, contain liquid crystal sandwiched between layers of glass or plastic which becomes opaque with an electric current.
Some of the highlights included the largest PDP (plasma display panel) screen yet, new models of LCD (liquid crystal display) monitors from many companies, and demonstrations of a new and very promising flat panel display technology that can make screens even thinner than they are today.
Another tactic is to make households pay by volume for the rubbish they generate, rather than through a flat fee or through local taxes.
The Vuitton family has quite a history: Company founder Louis was the first modern trunk-maker to make trunks flat on top (the better for stacking) and lighter (thanks to canvas sides) than the traditional stagecoach trunk.
Darbee uses a unique and patented approach to deliver extremely lifelike images that make the original image seem dull and flat by comparison.
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Make 8 to 10 shallow cuts in the thicker parts, then open them out like a book and press flat.
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