As economic growth screeched to a halt in 2008, margins followed, moving in a straight line back to 1.7% in the third quarter of 2009.
The addition of a logarithmic response to an exponential increase in the cause of something can in fact add up to a straight line, which is very obvious in a suite of the temperature projections made by our friends at the U.N.
Asda's efforts to open its first store in the Highlands has been like trying to push a shopping trolley with a wonky wheel in a straight line.
This exploits one of the predictions of Einstein's general theory of relativity: that the path of a beam of light (which is a straight line in empty space) is bent inwards by the gravity of a massive object.
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Health care grew in a straight line up, never missing a year of growth.
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He kicked it many times in a straight line until it was right underneath the branch.
Hagel's nomination cleared the committee in a straight party line 14 to 11 vote.
"You may not get from A to B in a straight line, " he added.
Socha never goes in a straight line and Wieckiewicz makes him a cunning, calculating Everyman.
No bull market goes up in a straight line and gold has already attracted too many speculators.
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Credit relative to GDP, then, does not grow in a straight line, thanks to the economic cycle.
Americans, as the video suggests, will be working for the Chinese if history travels in a straight line.
In short, investors believe they are flexible and adaptive, but their investments move in a straight line forever.
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That's a rise of 7% per year, though not in a straight line.
They need to shoot trades from tower to tower in a straight line.
The court heard that other drivers, including two driving behind Evans, saw Mr Mort cycling in a straight line.
The New York University student placed a paper bag over a set of motorized wheels that go only in a straight line.
The Maldives are pretty much in a straight line north to south.
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"They get to gallop on the grass in a straight line instead of getting chewed up on curving U.S. tracks, " says Stuart.
For this to work, the light from the cancer cell has to go through the round filtering lenses in a straight line.
Companies seldom fall in a straight line so there will be plenty of false rallies but nonetheless the trend will be down.
These are mechanical devices used to provide force in a straight line.
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Instead officers say they're still checking drivers by getting them to do things like stand on one leg and walk in a straight line.
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.
Motorists will be made to walk in a straight line and perform turns and estimate when 30 seconds is up with their heads tilted back.
The energy travels in a straight line at a constant speed.
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Economists, extending that trend in a straight line into the future, competed with each other with dire forecasts of how soon the country would be bankrupt.
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.
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