As doublings accumulate, however, and technology moves into the steep part of the exponential curve, great leaps become possible.

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Currently, around 20% of Americans pack such devices, with the growth rate near the steep part of the hockey stick.

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The more likely scenario is that we are riding the steep part of the nearly saturated S curve, and just like every other exponentially growing process that humanity went through, saturation eventually takes over.

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But whereas the base in the Korangal was situated about halfway up a mountainside, in a former lumberyard, the one in Kamdesh would sit in a cup within the valley's deepest cleft, ringed by three steep mountains that formed part of the 500-mile-long Hindu Kush mountain range.

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Meanwhile, credit card debt and personal loans, which carry steep interest rates, were a much smaller part of the individuals' overall liabilities.

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Part of the reason for this outlook is the steep competition in the U.S. cash equities business from Nasdaq and BATS Exchange, Allen says.

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Congress is on the verge of increasing funding for food stamps as part of the economic stimulus bill, because of the steep rise in the number of Americans applying for the aid.

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We live on a fairly steep hill and the climb at the end of the walk is the hardest part.

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Cooks merged last year with MyTravel, and cut 2, 800 jobs as part of huge cost-saving plans to offset high fuel costs and steep competition.

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Sebelius, the case in which the state sued the Administration over the part of health reform that requires everyone to buy insurance or pay a steep penalty.

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