And just as the rise of China is a straight-line projection of current economic trends, American decline is a straight-line projection of the fearful, pessimistic mood of a country war-weary and in the grip of a severe recession.
Emily, a straight-A and B sophomore, developed persistent migraines about two weeks before she wound up in the ICU early on December 8, said Bryant.
She was a straight-A student but unsatisfied.
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Miss Anwar was a "straight-A" student who was due to pick up her A-Level exam results from King Edward VI School on Thursday, police said.
Being able to take a disc straight from a Sony camcorder or DVD recorder and play it in a PSP would be a powerful and practical convergence demonstration.
My first purchase of the cherry season a bag of Bings went straight into a clafoutis (well, maybe after several went straight into my mouth).
Does the smacking of a small ball straight down a well-mown stretch of grass really require special clothes?
Within the half hour, I had caught three trout, and we set up on a nearby beach amid a rugged beauty straight from a Jack London novel: red sand, log cabin and fish baking over a crackling fire.
It's obvious that a sprinter can run faster down a straight than around a bend.
Schering-Plough Chief Executive Richard Jay Kogan has a reputation as a straight shooter and a forceful marketer.
The data is presented in a semi-logarithmic format: steady growth appears as a straight line on a semi-log chart.
McCready was then fortunate to avoid a straight red card a minute before half-time after a dreadful challenge on Mulligan.
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There was no doubt about the other strokes, which went progressively further, culminating in a straight drive over a shell-shocked Yuvraj's head.
But Diamonds played 50 minutes a man down when Nick McNamara saw a straight red for a high tackle on Lee Smith.
In Lay's World, the man who oversaw perhaps the most dramatic corporate failure ever with a straight face offered a discourse on good government.
The energy travels in a straight line at a constant speed.
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The AIG bailout shows how hard it is for America's financial authorities to steer a straight course through a crisis that is piling one systemic threat onto another.
In reality, they looked very much like a straight swap for a prior option grant that was, at the time, miserably underwater (exercise price far in excess of stock price).
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Back in 1999, he told the public with a straight face that a demand he made to the Toronto Blue Jays to trade him to the Yankees was about winning.
"When you get to the top of the wall there is a straight drop, a small flat bit and a slope bringing the ground back to the same level, " he said.
The new northbound lane would also be extended miles beyond the shelf, keeping vessels sailing in a straight line for a longer time, rather than allowing them to disperse where the whales congregate.
As the aircraft ran out of altitude and options, gliding with a broken windshield and no engine power, the crew made visual contact with the ground and spotted a straight section of a rural highway below.
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It adds a dimension to coxing which makes it a lot more interesting than steering over a straight course - a bit like the Grand National fences at Aintree add a new challenge for a National Hunt jockey.
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It's an old, familiar ploy, one that New England really hasn't been able to use with a straight face in a full decade, when a long-shot Patriots outfit with a random backup QB met Kurt Warner and the unstoppable Rams.
Aguiar blasted a free-kick straight at a two-man Caley defensive wall and a long throw-in from Grant Munro caused problems for the Hearts defence with Rooney's overhead kick blocked before the ball eventually fell to Dougie Imrie who sent his shot too high.
But visit after dark and even adults will be transported to a picturesque wintery scene taken straight from a feel-good movie.
After an hour, he left the wide state highway for a snaky blacktop road, and deep in the woods he made a left turn down a gravel lane that ran as straight as a railroad for ten miles.
In a scene that could have come straight from a James Bond movie, on June 13, 1987, a wanted Lebanese Islamic terrorist sped in a motorboat toward an 80-foot luxury yacht 13 miles off the coast of Cyprus.
He followed a straight-driven four with a hook for six, but got a little carried away and cut the next one straight to gully.
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