She downloaded quality reports that detailed complication rates for valve surgery patients at each hospital, grading them on a curve based on how sick the patients were before surgery.
If we're going to grade on a curve and be generous, I think really the best you can do is maybe is a C, or you know, possibly an incomplete.
These days, the best network comedies are too good for viewers to grade newcomers on a curve, out of gratitude for a bit of representation, a slice of the power pie.
But cheating to get ahead at any cost (particularly at the cost of another classmate if, for example, a test is graded on a curve) and collaborating with classmates for the common good are different ethical animals.
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Bolt proved that last year when he clocked 14.35 for 150m in Manchester in May, then was timed at "only" 14.44 to that point during his epic 200m in Berlin, having run the first 100m on a curve.
Previously, employees were reviewed twice a year on a five-point scale, plotted on a distribution curve, which determined workers' bonuses.
Perry is not loved or trusted by conservatives and was already on a downward curve.
You could go crazy trying to graph the net worth of Americans on a bell curve.
All this movement can come at a price for companies since participants learn on a steep curve at first.
These transactions are posted on a bell curve, displaying the percentage of sales in four price ranges: below market, great, good, and above market.
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"As India's economy opens up more and it rides on a growth curve, we will have travelers from different parts of the world, " he adds.
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Such rates of Greenland ice loss were barely larger than the margin of error in their readings, making it difficult to discern any difference between a supposed loss curve on a graph from a straight line.
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We tested the application on both a Verizon Curve 8530 and a Tour 9630 and found the entire solution to be incredibly sluggish.
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His career has continued on a steady upward curve in the intervening two years, with two quarter-final appearances at the US Open and a semi-final spot in Australia this year.
By tranching your capital into a deal over time, as risk is discharged, you can assess where on the distribution curve a deal is tracking.
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Weiss, as successful artist and sculptor in his own right, designed the bottle itself based on the curve of a woman's back.
It looks like once again the Fed will be dangerously behind the curve on a bubble, as it was in the stock market and housing bubbles.
In the 16th-century "Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons" displayed across the room, on the other hand, a crane stands delicately on one leg, its long neck tracing a gentle S-curve.
Chung's ideal stock is on the upward swing of a curve marked by rapid unit growth.
Liz Gannes of technology blog AllThingsD said she believed users would have a bit of a learning curve on their hands.
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On a graph, the upward curve of innovation and wealth looks smooth.
The median is nothing more than a point on the bell curve.
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The pair was returning from a friend's house when the father failed to make a steep curve on the road, the girl told police.
If the number of types of chocolate known at each stage is plotted on a graph, it will roughly correspond to a mathematical curve called a hyperbola.
Dr. Arthur Laffer developed the Laffer Curve based on a simple premise: at 100% taxation any incentive for work or investment ceases, eliminating the ability to collect taxes.
At every new role I took on, there was a learning curve, but in general, the skills I developed at the Agency translated easily into the private sector.
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TesoroLogistics is well positioned on the growth curve with a very strong year over year profit increase forecasted, as well as a healthy yield and expected earnings-accretive contribution from potential drop-down opportunities.
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But our passion goes beyond this and focuses on: how do you systematically help management and organizations get to a higher-place on this S-curve?
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