Flattened Quotations

Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine.

With U.S. mobile game sales having flattened from mid-2005, the industry has begun to support innovation -- in distribution, in technology, in marketing, and in game development -- as a business priority. As massive marketing spending that most industry players can't afford is the only clear alternative to ensure revenue growth, innovation is not only a necessity; it's good, cheap, and fun.

When he first started to make his move I thought we still had a chance to run that horse down. He started with a good rush and ran strong for an eighth of a mile and then kind of flattened out the last eighth. At that point, he's usually running by all of them. He ran by all of them but the last one today. We needed that other horse to stop a little bit and he never did.

Montana is transitioning from a natural resource economy to a human-resource-based economy. Economic production is now more decentralized than 30 years ago. This has flattened the economic playing field so that businesses can do things in small towns that used to have to be done in big cities.

My horse was a little lackadaisical early, ... I got him out to the outside where I wanted to be going into the second turn, and he started to make a pretty good move and flattened out on me during the lane.

I would have liked to see us play with more focus and concentration longer into this game. We played well in the first quarter and well into the second quarter, and then we just flattened out a little bit.

I feel we have flattened out. We have started several years knowing the net effect was going to be down, but the net effect this year has a chance to be up. A lot depends on how we play.

I saw it climbing up in the air. It was making a steep climb that you usually don't see aircraft do like that. And just as I was wondering why was he making such a steep climb up then the plane sort of flattened out and took a nose dive straight down until it hit the ground.

Paris's neighborhoods, the arrondissements, are organized like a twist. They spiral from the river like toilet water flushing in reverse and erupting out of the bowl - a corkscrew or what have you, a flattened pig's tail, a whorling braid notched one to 20.

Supply costs have flattened somewhat, but our competitive advantage has not.

With the curve having flattened for a few days in a row, people may have taken their money out of it. There's been big selling of the 30-year bond.

We passed town after town after town that looked like it had been literally flattened by an atomic bomb.

We've got to back our bowlers against their tail. The wicket has flattened out a bit but the history of the Wanderers shows that the ball does something early in the morning. We'll have to make sure our bowlers are fired up, we don't have any runs to play with.

Even though at 16, you can imagine how big he was then, I loved how he competed. He didn't weigh more than 150 pounds, but he just flattened guys. You love that, and with the way he moved the puck, he was just a nice package.

As I say, the Animals had a particular concept of themselves as a band. There was an anarchic spirit in it, which was being flattened by commercial designs, attitudes, and needs.

There's quite a bit of damage to some of the houses round about, and I know that some of the manufactured homes have been flattened in some areas.

I shot in on a couple of shots and I thought I had it. I just didn't close and he just kind of flattened me and turned me.

The soy-foods world has flattened out in a lot of product categories.

Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.

The movement to notebooks for people who are largely not mobile workers and were doing it because of lower heat and smaller space requirements, that part of the trend flattened out a bit as we got to very small form factor desktops and LCD monitors becoming more affordable.

Then he hit some cold winners and flattened some out. He just goes for it and stepped it up when he had to.

Economic activity flattened out at the end of the summer, suggesting that the nascent recovery may have already been aborted.

It was hard for us to get hits because she wasn't going to throw strikes. She threw the ball well and had a lot of movement, and she made us chase the ball. Once we showed patience, she got behind in the count and flattened out some pitches that we were able to hit.

I'm not going to get ticked off about winning, but I would have liked to have seen us play with more focus and concentration for longer in this game. We had a little concentration lapse and flattened out a bit.

In fact, for Illinois to have equaled New Mexico's sweet deal -- $2 back for every $1 it paid in federal taxes -- Washington would have to funnel 20 percent of all federally appropriated dollars to Illinois, an impossible amount. The only hope for rapid improvement in Illinois' ratio would be a fundamental tax reform that flattened federal income tax rates.

I don't think anyone can possibly imagine the impact these hurricanes have had on the region and on production agriculture unless they see it firsthand, ... We saw fields flattened by winds and inundated by salt water. We heard accounts of homes swept from their foundations and we saw trees broken like toothpicks. Of course, the full story can only be told by those whose lives and livelihoods have been forever altered by these storms.

For the last few months or so sales seem to have flattened out. This may be the beginning of a sideways movement. The rise in short-term interest rates and higher prices tend to slow down the turnover of houses.

The clock rate curves have pretty much flattened out since 2002.

The load has flattened because we've reached capacity. No more new people are coming in. There is no room in the parking lot and no place to sit.