In profile, the powerful convex curve of the bonnet flows seamlessly through a steeply raked windscreen into a roofline which deliberately peaks towards the rear of the cabin to emphasise the traction available from the vehicle's rear-wheel drive powertrain.

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If the profile of the US Treasury yield curve has to rise even before the Fed look to move the funds rate then the implication is that the corporate borrower will similarly have to pay more for capital.

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In repose, its heavy, squared-off mass seems to have been sculpted by Epstein or Gaudier-Brzeska, while the clean curve of nose and brow offers the pagan profile not of a movie actor but of a Greek wrestler, bashed in life and purified in marble.

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