The young woman had parked her sled at the precise point I would hit if I lost control of my own and slid straight--instead of skidding racecar-style through the curve.
Aside from the lost income to the agency, the client also suffers a loss by needing to go through a learning curve with a new agency aside from the two to three months it typically takes to go through the process of a properly managed agency review.
It would be particularly harmful because the Fed has been trying to keep the long end of the yield curve down through its quantitative easing programs and other stimulus.
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Extending the curve of Route 75 through the hills, they gently bent the bridge on a 12-mile radius, creating a smooth, shallow curve that gives motorists at either end a view of all the masts at the same time.
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Surgeons liken it to putting a tractor-trailer into reverse gear and swerving flawlessly through a wicked S-curve.
Assume Alan Greenspan is through tightening and the yield curve turns more positive.
It sends learning rates (both individual and corporate) shooting through the knee of the curve like an F-16 taking off.
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But the operation was so demanding technically that most urologists were afraid to try it. (One doctor likens it to backing up a tractor trailer around a curve by looking through the rearview mirror).
Some of these other machines had to go through hoops just to print a curve.
And the difference between a machine-made hull and one shaped by Saito is significant: with the right curve, a boat will glide through the sea with less resistance and burn less fuel.
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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One of the things that he's talked about, Wendell, is ensuring that we're making progress on health care reform as a way of bringing that deficit down, and changing the curve on our health care spending through Medicare and Medicaid.
The blade is sharp on the inside of the curve, allowing the user to swing it through crops, cutting and gathering them at the same time.
Options to look for include adaptive cruise control that can automatically maintain a set speed and interval on the highway, and high-intensity Xenon headlamps with Active Curve Illumination that can help illuminate the road at night through curves.
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 as one of our great American educators once said, if you drew a line through all the valleys and all the peaks, that line would be drawn with an upward curve.
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