That is a positively sloped curve.

The path ascends steeply from there.

The road ascends steeply from that point.

It will go steeply downhill from there.

In this pineapple, there's eight to the right, thirteen to the left, you can add those numbers together to get how many numbers are in the set spiraling steeply upwards.

It can't be attributed to a decline in the murder rate, because the murder rate has not declined nearly so steeply as the red line on that graph has gone down.

And yet, at the same time that we continue to execute about the same number of people every year, the number of people who we're sentencing to death on an annual basis has dropped rather steeply.

So these innovations together can transform automakers from wringing tiny savings out of Victorian engine and seal stamping technologies to the steeply falling costs of three linked innovations that strongly reenforce each other namely ultralight materials, making them into structures and electric propulsion.

Instead of official forecasts of oil use and oil imports going forever up, they can turn down with the 12 dollars a barrel efficiency, down steeply by adding the supply side substitutions at 18 bucks, all implemented at slower rates than we've done before when we paid attention.

And the reason why we really want to focus on that is because it tells us that even though the unemployment rate, the official unemployment rate that is increasing very steeply and I'll show a graph right here, this is actually work Mish did, where he actually shows that the spread between U 6 and U 3 has been increasing, and it's been increasing at an accelerating rate since last February.