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Examples
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That's absurd, based on a straightline projection.
Environmentalist Forecasting Model, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Similarly, in Formula 1, more time is spent, per unit distance covered, in the corners than on the straights, hence in terms of lap-time alone, the greatest benefits accrue from improving the cornering characteristics of the cars than by improving straightline speed.
Archive 2009-05-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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As a fresh demonstration of this, the teams which have developed a cornering advantage this year (the double-decker diffuser teams), are significantly faster than those which initially developed only a straightline speed advantage (the KERS teams).
Archive 2009-05-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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Since it has been growing faster than the overall economy any straightline projection will show it becoming unmanagable.
Social Security Debate Online, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Link value is not reduced at 1/9 each month on a straightline basis now either.
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Prudence (and their utter failure to identify his state of nuke development in 1991) led them to assume at least straightline growth from the 1998 state of affairs.
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It was certainly nothing like near perfect road-test assortment of Lambo 640, Ferrari 599, Bugatti Veyron, 997 Turbo and testing the straightline speed at the Ehra-Lessien test track in northern Germany.
"The Bugatti annihilated the top speed of each of its supercar rivals with a run of 250mph." Ben Barren 2006
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None touched down right here in town, but the straightline winds that blew through here sometimes at gusts around 65 mph took down a lot of trees, signs, and shingles.
Sometimes you feel as if you are swimming upstream girlwithoutfear 2008
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Now that the sun is up, often this is when, obviously, folks start to assess the damage, try to figure out whether this was a tornado, was just a straightline winds.
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It was certainly nothing like near perfect road-test assortment of Lambo 640, Ferrari 599, Bugatti Veyron, 997 Turbo and testing the straightline speed at the Ehra-Lessien test track in northern Germany.
Archive 2006-12-01 Ben Barren 2006
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