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For a freshman, he's doing a great job of getting ahead in the count and staying ahead. He keeps them off balance. He's able to throw all three of his pitches for strikes. His curve defies gravity. He's going to be a good one.

For all intents and purposes the Fed is going to move at a measured pace whether that word is in there or not. And now, the longer end of the yield curve should react more to Fed moves.

It's the natural growth curve of the industry. It took a while for it to gain traction, then we saw several years of explosive growth, and now it will slow down.

It's surprising that it wasn't easy to convert. There may be other factors that prevent it. That's not to say that Mother Nature won't come along and throw us a curve ball.

It's the best indicator of how much academic language they are acquiring. Occasionally, you have kids who all of a sudden get on a real learning curve and you just pour everything you can. It's amazing, they soak up so much.

It's only a learning curve for a lot of them as this is their first trip.

It's time to take off bets on the curve flattening, it's been a great run. Some investors had been betting on up to two rate increases this year but the central bank isn't likely to go past one.

It probably doesn't mean we don't see another rate increase, but it suggests that the Fed is not behind the curve and inflation is not getting out of control.

There was a lot of money invested in the Treasury market that the curve would get more inverted. The market moved against that, and now there's a lot of pain.

It's a learning curve and an experience for us. I don't want to use the excuse of use, but there is a factor there. Six of them have never been here before.

It's a learning curve and a process that we're in right now. It probably doesn't sound right being in the seventh year, honestly.

It's a learning curve for all these young men. One has to hope that they learn quickly.

It's a learning curve for the field staff and the PGA Tour, too. We were surprised at the difficulty of some of the pin placements during the week for the pro-am competition, and I think the tour staff knows to re-think that.

Asset liability matching demand from pension funds will support the longer end and assuming the ECB hikes rates aggressively, we might see a flat yield curve by April.

It's new, exciting, anybody from 6 to 66 can do it. Unlike skiing or snowboarding, the learning curve is not as steep.

That's the first curve ball I threw to a lefty all season. He was on my fast ball and changeup so I had to think of something else.

That little rascal can bring it up there. He's touched 90 a few times, has a good curve and an awesome slider.

As a forecasting rule of thumb, the yield curve has been pretty good but it may not be a good rule of thumb today.

They did some things early on in there that threw us some curve balls. On defense, they did a real good coaching job on that part. We had to kind of struggle to get things going again, but we did control the ball, which is a big deal.

There's been a learning curve with him as far as not having Randy, who adds a totally different dimension to the offense. He's made several big throws, and when he gets more comfortable, he'll be back. There's no doubt about it.

It's a very big learning curve and they competed well but it was a very tough contest. (The other divers) were all stepping up and performing above and beyond how they did in the dual-meet season.

It's a tough one to get ahead of the curve on. Because it seems like we have so many people generally across the community that are ill, that's what makes this tougher and more complex.

It's just tricky. It's an extremely technical track and extremely fast down there at the bottom. If you get something wrong in a curve, it's just the way the curve sends you. You get shot up to the roof.

It's just a learning curve and once I get adjusted to it, I just kind of start to grow within that. Each step, I've been kind of doing the same thing.

What the curve is telling us is that a March increase is a foregone conclusion.

We were prepared for that. I had him throw a curve ball to try to get him to pop it up, but he did a nice job of getting it down.

What's happening there in New York is an early curve of what's going to be happening around the country in the next few years. This is a new wave of competition. Basically the telephone and cable television companies are both rushing to offer the same bundle of services: television, phone, Internet and wireless. The sooner they do, the sooner prices will come down for all the customers.

We expect over 9 million consumers to view the Heineken ads while visiting our locations and browsing for music on our jukeboxes, with hundreds of thousands of these consumers actively engaging in a Heineken and Grammy sponsored interactive activity. Heineken is definitely ahead of the curve when it comes to on-premise, new media applications.

We expect the yield curve to invert further as long as US stocks continue to show no signs of a retreat and the Fed is priced to tighten.

We don't want the consumer to be able to beat their man one on one every single time. Because that's no fun. ... There is a bit of a learning curve there and it's not going to work every time.

We're going to try to get out ahead of the curve and be aggressive with incentives.

It is so similar to Microsoft Office that the learning curve (for the librarians) was short. If they can use Microsoft Office, they can use OpenOffice.

It's a blessing and a curse, and not in that order. The freshmen are going through a learning curve that is very steep.

It's a complicated process to look from receiver to receiver. The steep learning curve is going to turn off most casual gamers.

It will be a learning curve for him. I know the first few games are very important,

It's a good move. It flattens the yield curve and brings long-term rates down.

This will be my first time running the long course. So there will be a learning curve running a DP for the first time on a track that I haven't run before. I ran on the NASCAR circuit earlier this year so I know that Watkins Glen lives up to all the hype and then some.

We kind of put everybody on a pitch limit today. I thought Andy did a fine job. He had good location and he had plenty of good pop. His curve wasn't quite there, but his mechanics were there. It's a bonus to get him back.

We want to give customers an inside view of our implementation so they could have a framework so they could go and do the same thing. If we can shorten the learning curve for our customers and for internal developers, that's success.

It makes a lot of sense when you look at the depreciation curve on a typical new car. Most of the depreciation takes place in the first two years, so someone else takes the hit,

It's like taking a continuous curve and breaking it into pieces. Otherwise, the form is too complex to analyze.

It's becoming obvious to everybody that we're kind of at the bottom of the curve and that rental income is going to start climbing from here.

It's been a fun week. It's been a fun ride. Getting in at the last minute and having a chance to play this great event, great golf course, great field, it's been a lot of fun, and the learning curve keeps going in the right direction, I guess.

It's going to be a quick learning curve getting to know all the guys,

There is this simplistic notion around that because the yield curve is inverted, therefore, economic growth is going to slow down, but ... no consideration is given as to why the economy would slow down.

They're not awed by competition. They go into races with people older and stronger and they're not intimidated. There's no learning curve with them; they were like that in cross-country too. They do not get rattled, they just perform.

I can definitely see a comfort level, we're ahead of the curve compared to last year. We're just trying to eliminate a lot of the inconsistencies.

How was it we were so far behind the curve that it was almost laughable. It just makes my jaw drop to think that on 9/11 or 9/10 the kind of technology that is available to most school kids and certainly every small business in this country, why isn't it available to the FBI?

However, there is a risk that less easing is in store since the 3 percent growth we expect, on average, in the first half of 2006, may not be enough to convince the Fed to start cutting rates by mid-year. Thus there is a risk that the yield curve remains inverted for longer than we have built into our forecast.

He's got a fastball, curve and change. He throws a heavy ball. That means he gets plenty of grounders. He's done everything we have asked of him so far.

He's got a good arm and a good curve ball. We've got a great challenge against him.

He's obviously one of our top pitchers, and he had a great day today. His curve ball was working really well, and he had them off-stride. We'll take all that we can get.

I decided he would come back with another curve ball. It broke right over the inside part of the plate.

I do see the Bank of Canada looking to raise rates, and the converging yield curve between Canada and the United States will continue to underpin the Canadian dollar.

If Fed Funds were expected to rise in the future, the curve would be positive with intermediate and long bonds requiring higher yields as a cushion against accelerating short rates. If the Fed were expected to lower rates, a flatter, even inverted curve might result. It's not that this academic theory has been dislodged in recent years but it may have been asked to take a seat next to the increasingly important variable of global financial flows. These flows, no doubt, rely critically on the willingness of foreign investors to hold U.S. assets in the face of potential currency and asset price depreciation.

I felt really good. I was throwing my change-up for strikes and my fastball where I wanted to. My slider felt good, but my curve ball needed a little polishing up.

I don't think there has been that much of a learning curve for her. Some of our play calls have changed, but it's been an easy adjustment.

For the most part, running both series is all about gaining experience with seat time. I still have a lot to learn, and I believe running in both series will help shorten the learning curve and keep me focused. It's going to be an extremely busy year, but I'm looking forward to the challenge.

For people who look closely at energy, the idea of New York being a callous and wasteful place is long dead and buried. When it comes to following up on new ideas and new technologies and staying ahead of the curve in terms of being smart and economical, New York is clearly among the leaders in the country.

Her curve ball moved very well. She had velocity on her pitches too.

He pitched great. He had some big strikeouts when he needed them. His command was better today, he had better location. He was able to throw strikes with his curve and his change, whereas in the first game he pretty much relied on his fastball.

If he continues to believe that a flat curve is indicative of economic weakness, the hand-off may be one in which we stop at 4.5 percent.

Before, it was just about making the films - and now it's releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve.

Every activity worth doing has a learning curve.

The last four years have just been a whirlwind learning curve for me, and John has made it a lot easier. It didn't take me long to realize my future wasn't going to be on the field. So this is what I have aspired to for quite a while.

The last three or four weeks he's really starting to turn it around...you've got a little learning curve what it means to be a captain.

The market is finally reacting to commodity prices. The weakness on the long end of the curve is contributing to the weakness too. We've been holding strong for this week, but everything is in a negative light today. There's a little more volatility because it's options expiration.

The market tried so hard to break 3.90 (percent), but the Europeans threw in a curve ball.

The learning curve compared to last year, where we installed a new system and a new defense in the first three weeks, isn't as steep this season. Now that we've had a year to work with the kids, I think we can build on our success.

The learning curve is going to be fast.

The learning curve is so steep in these last couple of weeks. We're learning new things every day. It's all linked with the taper both clubs are experiencing.

The learning curve on this equipment is pretty long, so it takes a while with the new technology to bring folks up to speed. All of this new equipment puts us in the growth and high-performance markets we want to be in, and it goes toward the long-term viability of the plant being competitive in the market.

The learning curve that was so steep for my opponent when he came into office caused this situation to be exacerbated beyond what it should have been.

The long end of the curve is very cheap. We are maintaining our long duration position in Treasuries.

Indeed, he seemed to approach the grave as a hyperbolic curve approaches a straight line -- less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all.