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Ferry looked like a different team tonight. Tonight they were able to hit the curve and the seemed focused and ready to play. They played well and deserved to win the way they did.

Fed tightening is being transmitted throughout the yield curve to other rates, so we're really just starting to see the result of a year and a half of Fed tightening.

Europe seems to be behind the curve in some places, with much lower expected revenue growth than North America and Asia Pacific in some key emerging services like spam, content filtering, and network AV. European and Asia Pacific providers currently get the bulk of their revenue from standalone services, while North American providers get the bulk of revenue from integrated services.

There was a huge learning curve there. He still performed very well and was a huge factor for us.

There's no working into the season. It's kind of become commonplace. We've worked against them in (summer) 7-on-7 (passing league at EAHS) and that's helped in the learning curve to face a spread team like them. I don't think we feel as much like a fish out of water as we used to.

There's no such thing as median income; there's a curve, and it really matters what side of the curve you're on. There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing.

To buy stocks just because it's the end of the year is not a good reason to do it when the fundamentals indicate otherwise. The yield curve is flattening in response to the slowing housing market. The implications can't be ignored. That's why we're trading the way we are.

A flat or inverted curve has been difficult for banks to manage. But if there are associated inflation expectations built into the lower end of the curve, it might make it easier for banks to price loans, so the cost of funds is less than the yield on their assets.

A flattening yield curve typically is indicative of the bond market's view that the Fed as being less accommodative,

A flat yield curve affected our spread business, and transaction volume in domestic life insurance & retirement services and capital markets was lower as a result of regulatory and related issues,

You're able to perform really complex mathematics and therefore re-generate a different curve that might be impossible to do using analog techniques.

This is awesome, ... It's been a long road for the GTO to get up on the pole position. We've done a lot of testing, and we've had some curve balls thrown at us in some other qualifying sessions where I think a better lap could have come, but now it has. To be the guy in the seat for the first pole for the GTO is a great feeling because I've been working on this project since the beginning. Pontiac has put up a huge effort. Jan got the first win and I got the first pole. I think the car will be good tomorrow.

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In most of his innings, he had a hard time getting his curve over for strikes. There were couple innings when his changeup left him as well. You'll give up some hits if you're throwing only one pitch for strikes. But the one thing you'll get from him is a battle.

I've got the learning curve because I've got the offense I've been using all year. If anyone else needs help, they're coming to me, so I kind of help coach Phillips, too.

I know that our opponents probably aren't going to. We have to stay ahead of the curve there.

In America, we have this bell curve of certain values. And then we have another bell curve of different values, which is the Republican Party. And they're out of sync right now.

I'm trying to figure out if I should throw a curve ball, or a slider.

If there's going to be an add-on for this or special software for that, there's going to be a very high learning curve for the IT department. You have to figure out if using so many is helping more than creating problems.

I have one senior playing (Michael Cole), and that's a big advantage. This season has been an emotional rollercoaster, but I'm blessed with a young group that has a lot of talent, and the learning curve is right there in front of us. We can see it.

I loved the writing part of it, but the learning curve on the actual filmmaking was steeper than I thought,

Intel's price curve is significantly more aggressive than anything we've seen before,

If you change your offense, it's a whole other learning curve you have to go through. The guys took so long to learn the offense last time that by keeping the same thing we're a step ahead. I don't want us to take another step backward.

If you leave pitches up to a good team like this, they're gonna make you pay. The first home run I gave up, I hung a curve ball, so Danny Payne got a hold of that one.

If you look at the paths of other actors, most people have a curve where you hit it and there's a time where you make a lot of money and they let you make your movies, and then they take it away and it's gone.

I've had maybe 20 jobs, big and small, and I've never hated any of them. At the same time, the moment the learning curve flattened, I was out of there.

I'm not completely happy about it but I'll take it. The curve on the final didn't go as I wanted.

A tepid equity market, a flat yield curve and low interest rates are all combining to put earnings and sales pressure on fourth-quarter results for life insurers.

Strong loan and deposit growth and the bank's ability to control deposit costs more than offset margin compression pressure from the flat yield curve (in 2005).

The adoption curve will be fast because it's not something that has to be explained, ... People get it pretty quickly.

The need is obvious, ... As we start out today to do our job, we start out a little behind the curve because not enough people speak the languages we need. So we're looking for ways to fix that.

It was a curve inside. I got too much of it over the plate.

It's nasty. You can't keep your car clean. It's like a merry-go-round with all the bumps, and you slide around that curve every time.

It's been a learning curve for all of us.

It's probably going to take a little bit longer until they get up the learning curve and the repetition of using the new system.

At the same time, the yield curve is flat and actually has the potential to invert. An inverted yield curve has often been a precursor to a recession occurring within a year.

The Jockey Club is ahead of the curve in terms of sophistication.

The inversion of the curve could continue certainly well into the second quarter. It depends on the appetite for buying U.S. Treasuries and how far the Fed goes.

The Kyoto protocol doesn't amount to much in terms of emissions reductions but at least it breaks the curve (of rising emissions) among countries that have accepted its targets.

That's a steep growth curve that's hidden, ... I think it's a great long-term investment.

That's a tough base on balls. He had confidence is getting his curve over. He missed with it, and that's a big walk.

It's been foreigners looking for yield that has driven the U.S. curve to flatten. The market will interpret this inversion as more circumspect than previous ones.

It's different, but he played college ball at Maryland in the ACC so he's very familiar with American basketball and he knows the NBA game because he studied it a lot and he's played against a lot of the players. The learning curve for him as a 29-year-old shouldn't be that great.

It took me a couple of innings to get adjusted and I started to get in a groove about the fourth inning. My fastball and curve were really working well.

It will spend a lot of time well away from Central Florida. But on Sunday, it will make a curve back toward the Panhandle and that's when we will probably see the most rain in our area. The projected landfall is roughly between Apalachicola and New Orleans.

It won't be an easy road. But it's not that dark. We aren't going around the curve without the light on.

It will be a work in progress. We like to think, as everybody would at this stage, that we're progressing and we have our teams prepared. But there will be things that crop up. Every coach is saying we don't want to struggle with the learning curve early on. But some will.

Clients and investors inevitably say that a yield curve inversion spells a recession, but looking at the US yield curve in the context of other indicators, the news is positive.

He (Wright) stepped it up tonight. He had trouble finding his pitches early and then found the curve in the fourth. Catcher Chris Matthews did an outstanding job behind the plate.

Hey, I let my team down tonight. I'll be back out there and I'll pick us up another night. It's a learning experience right now, and hopefully, I can make that learning curve short.

His intentions were not very clear but there is a sense of disappointment in the market, considering some people were thinking the recent spikes in the short to intermediate sector of the yield curve were overdone.

His curve ball was missing, ... but he still pitched well.

I have sailed on a lot of high performance boats during the last few years, so I am familiar with them. I have been following the race very closely and am excited to take on this new challenge. I will have to rely on the team to get my learning curve up as quickly as possible.

If you want it to look right, you have to get the right curve on the back of their head. Getting the right angle on the wings is hard, too.

International bankers are staying ahead of the inflation curve, ... They gave the impression that they are staying ahead of the curve and that's a big positive.

I just missed the pitch before that. He threw me a curve ball and he actually jammed me a little bit.

Because of all the various people who've come in and out and brought along ideas, I've been on a learning curve throughout all these years. Of course, everyone that's been involved has influenced me as well. And I'm grateful for that.

He's young, and he's on a curve so steep.

He throws a lot of first pitch strikes. He doesn't fall behind in the count and that allows him to go to the off speed pitches. When his curve is working it makes his fastball look 10 miles per hour faster.

I didn't have my good stuff today. I hadn't pitched in about a week and my arm was feeling kind of dead. So I was pulling out more curve balls than usual.

I didn't ever see the ball; it was that fast. That angle when he threw a curve scared the daylights out of me.

I didn't throw any curve balls today. I didn't like the way my arm was feeling in warm-ups.

He's the best young pitcher I've seen this season. You couldn't sit on his fastball because he had such a good curve and a change. And his fastball moved. He was tough.

Clearly the human story is one of acceleration. There has been a Moore curve in terms of the number of people alive on the planet, our technological ability, and our ability to understand ourselves. We have had this extraordinary, explosive growth in our ingenuity.

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He's another guy that's cool, consistent and not afraid. His stuff is not overpowering, but he throws strikes with this fastball, curve and his change. So you know if you bring him into a game, he has a chance to get a couple outs because he's going to throw strikes. He's been very good for us, particularly against left-handed hitters.

There was a sense that a year-end rally would take us higher, but there's some concern from the bond market flattening. The inverting of the yield curve would bring us more problems in 2006. We also have light volume, exaggerating moves to both sides.

The restaurant industry hasn't stepped ahead of the curve on this one. I don't think they've seen a need to do it, but at some point this is going to become a bigger, pressing demand among a large group of consumers.

They are well behind the curve at the moment.

The yield curve has been one of the more reliable indicators of turning points, not necessarily recessions, but slowdowns in the economy.

The yield curve has narrowed. Some money market funds are now yielding more than 4%. At that rate, they're competitive with both short- and long-term bond funds.

The yield curve inversion is something I think we're going to be living with probably longer than most people would hope. It is something that will take its toll on regional banking over time.

The yield curve is a really powerful indicator. It always has been. The shape of the curve still matters.

The yield curve is beginning to frighten people.

The yield curve is flat and typically when that happens, banks are reluctant to lend money and the economy becomes vulnerable,

The yield curve is reflecting too pessimistic an outlook on the economy. The market will just have to be convinced otherwise.

The yield curve remains steady ... indicating that the upside inflation risk appears to be canceled out by Fed vigilance for now.

It's clearly a tough environment for CFOs to manage, given where the yield curve is, as they are directly responsible for managing balance sheets.

It was kind of an adjustment for James to go from high school to college, but his learning curve has sky rocketed. He's not very vocal, but he can lead a team so well and do so many things on the floor that don't show in the stats or the highlights.

And then my Suzuki's engine is definitely stronger, more horsepower, there's a different power curve and I am happier with it.

Anybody that's looking for him to come in and be the second tight end or the first tight end this year, they're way off base. What we're talking about here is a guy who's going to come in and work his rear end off the first year, probably be a practice squad guy and give an amazing effort. Then in the second year, as the learning curve hits, will be a contributor.

As far as traffic control, it's a learning curve for us at the Stockton Police Department. It's the first morning event at the arena, and we had the influx using the arena blending with the morning traffic coming to work.

Anybody who tells you that a flat yield curve is fine or that rising interest rates are good for the banking industry isn't in the same banking industry. Clearly these things are not helpful, but there are ways to manage through it.

You want to get off to a start and put yourself ahead of the curve right out of the gate. You want to do that. You definitely want to stack your chips. You want to stack your nuts for all the hard times to come ahead.

The front end of the curve seems to be on the expensive side. You have a Fed that is not yet done tightening.

The front end of the curve tried to rally a little bit and there was a trade down in the belly of the curve. We expect the Fed to cut rates another quarter-percentage point in January and for federal funds to be at 1.5 percent in the middle of 2002. We're looking for a recovery in the third quarter of next year.

The ECB has signaled that if there was any risk inflation expectations would run away, they would contain them. With this central bank rate-hike cycle, it may lead to a flat yield curve by April.

(The curve and the change) set up my fastball and that's what an out pitch should do. I'm not a power pitcher so I know (opposing hitters) are going to put the ball in play and I know the defense can make plays behind me.

The curve inversion is just a temporary phenomenon. It cannot last as the Fed raises rates.

The curve inverted modestly yesterday, and people are piling on.

The curve should be flattening if the Fed is assumed to be still tightening.

The economy still remains bleak and is getting bleaker, ... The Federal Reserve remains behind the curve -- this will end, but not in the near future.

The flattening move of the curve has been accelerating. There was some substantial buying of the new 30-year bond and now we're seeing a reversal of that as recent interest has waned. This has caused a quick reversal of the inversion.

The flattening of the yield curve during the past year has made it challenging to increase net interest income.

The flat yield curve was really hurting them.

A hawkish tone is already priced into the markets, both in the yield curve and on the currency. It was the big event risk of the week and he did live up to market expectations.

Although an inverted yield curve does not always imply an economic recession, it has predicted a profit recession 100 per cent of the time.

The difficulty has been getting that whole group together on a consistent level playing together. Fortunately, those guys are very experienced. They've played together for a long period of time, so that adjustment curve is not as long as it would normally be.

A bullish orientation towards the front-end of the curve therefore should begin to dominate bond strategies, combined with an avoidance of anything that carries those low-risk premiums that Greenspan finally diagnosed, ... Those assets include real estate, equities, high yield, corporate, and some areas of emerging-market debt.

Accidents happen at night. They come around the curve and flip it, and they wind up in my driveway or across the street.