But the truth is, even the best businesses do not grow linearly as planned.

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The pressure increases linearly with the depth and eventually the wall would become extremely difficult to construct.

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The left hemisphere is highly involved in language production and as a result it processes information linearly, literally, and semantically.

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Yet growth occurs non-linearly through the compounding power that comes with recursion.

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The Dell case illustrates the perverse short-term view prevalent on Wall Street that dictates that growth must occur continuously, smoothly and linearly every quarter.

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The primary problem with LNT is the incorrect assumption that cytogenic and mutagenic effects at the individual cellular level linearly extrapolate to the organismal level, i.e.

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The good times are invariably extrapolated linearly into the future.

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Our intuitions and insights develop quite linearly with time, but the amount of data at our disposal and the computing power capable of interpreting such data is increasing exponentially.

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But while it would be a huge mistake to linearly project continued demographic improvement for Russia, it would be just as big a mistake to linearly project future demographic decline.

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If two stockmarket indices always move linearly in the same direction at the same time, and the relative size of their movements is always the same, they have a perfect correlation of 1.

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