In fact, fitting any simple curve to the data does no better than the straight line.
In his boat, the straight line of ocean unbroken on any side, every minute was a day, one hour was longer than any life ever lived.
This afternoon, a few days after Owens's well-received fall 2013 runway show, the designer has been persuaded to conduct a house tour, clad in his usual uniform: unlaced sneakers, shorts over trousers, a halter T-shirt atop a garment he calls his "level" turtleneck (because of the straight line across the shoulder, in front of the throat).
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The straight-line portion of these types of curves above Earth background has been the basis for the Linear No-Threshold Dose hypothesis, or LNT.
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.
"The threat for strong tornadoes will rapidly diminish in these areas after sunset, with the main threat becoming damaging straight line winds during the overnight hours, " Morris said.
One end of the broom is a straight line of optical threads that sit beneath the glass slide.
The 320-mile, bullet-straight line between the two cities needed 3, 000 bridges and 67 tunnels, doubling the estimated cost.
However, nowhere is the tendency to extend trends in a straight line into the future without expectations of reversals more prevalent than in the world of investing.
Federal funding is available to state and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency work and the repair or replacement of facilities damaged by the severe storms and straight-line winds in the counties of Atlantic, Cumberland, and Salem.
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Federal funding is available to state and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency work and the repair or replacement of facilities damaged by the severe storms and straight-line winds in the counties of Calvert, Charles, Kent, Montgomery, and St.
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Few market theorists have detected supernatural forces at work in spurring the more-or-less straight line move that the major indexes have traced in recent weeks, even though the market has walked over every obstacle placed in its path, be it European debt, Egyptian unrest or good old-fashioned domestic unemployment.
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Not surprisingly, by 2000 the previous negative trend was forgotten and the new positive trend was being extended in a straight line into the future.
That extra attention to detail has already begun at the Ferrari factory as the team's engineers solved the problem with Alonso's faulty drag reduction system (DRS) -- an overtaking aid which increases the car's straight-line speed by flipping open the top flap of the rear wing -- the day after the Bahrain Grand Prix.
Bob Mondello says "Walk the Line" walks a pretty straight line, but it should please Cash's fans.
After Sunday's 3-1 victory over Blackpool, Wenger said the Pole was "not far away" and he is expected to go straight into the starting line-up.
Most Middle East analysts make two fundamental errors: They have a static perspective that simply extends the present into the future in a straight line, and they tend to focus on Egypt, where one-quarter of the Arab League lives, while ignoring the North African and Gulf states where important changes are underway.
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But somehow, some way, the bulls were able to hold the line for four straight downs on Monday.
The horizon is a circumference, not a straight line, and the land below unrelentingly flat, divided only by orchards lined up like military regiments.
"As the market no longer sees a straight-line appreciation for the yuan, a lot of Hong Kong exporters receiving yuan as payments are starting to use options to manage their yuan exposure, " said Candy Ho, head of yuan business development in the Asia-Pacific region for HSBC Holdings PLC.
Federal funding is available to state and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency work and the repair or replacement of facilities damaged by the severe storm, straight-line winds, flooding, and landslides in the areas of Alaska Gateway REAA, Chugach REAA, Denali Borough, Kenai Peninsula Borough, and the Matanuska Susitna Borough.
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The President today declared a major disaster exists in the State of Maryland and ordered Federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area affected by severe storms and straight-line winds during the period of June 29 to July 8, 2012.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Signs Maryland Disaster Declaration
The only time Te'o might be asked to run 40 yards in a straight line in the NFL might be if he covers kickoffs on special teams, so more important are the quickness and positional drills.
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Federal funding is available to state and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency work and the repair or replacement of facilities damaged by the severe storm, straight-line winds, and flooding in Ferry and Okanogan Counties and the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation.
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When has the world known straight-line peace, prosperity, full employment, zero inflation and continuous growth?
Nelson, in the ring for his final attempt, threw the shot straight, but he stepped over the line.
Brabin chose to throw Rendell straight into the starting line-up following his return to the club on loan.
"They get to gallop on the grass in a straight line instead of getting chewed up on curving U.S. tracks, " says Stuart.
The nanotube is a straight line with almost no depth or width.
There is an ever-present sense of the horizon throughout the house, a straight line that Dali must have felt he could fall off of.
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