From the start of the year, AONE has made lower highs and lower lows in a very systematic, stair step manner.

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In recent months, Honda dealers say the company has turned to controversial "stair-step" incentives to capture more price-sensitive buyers.

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The market continues to methodically stair-step higher, holding key levels when it has to in order to maintain bullish composure.

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Examples include so-called stair-step programs, where dealers get a retroactive bonus per car if they hit a particular sales target.

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It will feature the company's FSA (full-scene anti-aliasing) technology, which enhances the curves of lines and reduces the "stair-step" effect in curves.

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It does what we call stair-step with a series of higher highs and higher lows each day, with a little back and fill.

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The effort encouraged people to use the stairs instead of the escalators by making each stair a functioning piano key, so that every step was music in the making.

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