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Examples
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No one could flat-line as much as you guys pretend to, nor be so obtuse.
Sotomayor: 'Perry Mason' influenced her to become a prosecutor 2009
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The GOP will flat-line without independents ... gbenton
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While the outyear budgets were a non-controversial flat-line placeholder, the 2010 budget enabled real progress.
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Real wages for the typical worker started to flat-line around 2003 and are now falling fast.
What should Miliband do to make Labour electable again? 2011
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You might see the economy flat-line for lack of industry-changing innovation.
The Heady Thrill of Having Nothing to Do Scott Adams 2011
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The big danger is that we will bottom out and then flat-line, like Japan in the 90s.
Matthew Yglesias » A Flawed Stimulus is Better than No Stimulus 2009
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Those consequences become clearer with each passing day, as corporate profits continue to rise while productive domestic investment and wages either flat-line or decline.
Scrooge-ism in Wisconsin's union battle Harold Meyerson 2011
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Simmering discontent over President Obama's decision to flat-line Aids funding for poor countries may be turning into something more explosive.
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"The financial crisis shouldn't be an excuse to flat-line or scale back," Michel Sidib, executive director of UNAIDS, told attendees at the opening session.
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But other couples come to this stage in a flat-line relationship.
Some longtime couples find that not breaking up is hard to do Abigail Trafford 2010
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