So as we get older, time with friends tapers off.
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Baym sees the rise of easy phone streaming as endangering tapers.
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Coil winders, tapers, and finishers are projected to decline by 20.7%
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The line of customers tapers off at times, but never disappears.
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"Just avoid anything tall, like tapers and big bouquets," Mr. Sullivan said.
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"After a certain point, compensation tapers off in its importance," he said.
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The first quarter is typically the strongest and tapers off throughout the year.
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But I think once you reach a certain age, that shit tapers off.
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As mentioned, ghrelin production tapers off after a few days of not eating.
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The call pulsates at its peak and tapers off after about 15 seconds.
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"Tapers sometimes drip wax on things, which can be a nuisance," he said.
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But many economists point out that if investment tapers off, so will growth.
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Fat candles flicker on the walls, and tall dripping tapers sit on the tables.
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That's the term used for a universal basic income that tapers off with income.
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To serious tapers, "phone recordings" are synonymous with incomplete, inconsistent, and rarely enjoyable documentation.
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From behind, the V-shaped back that tapers to the same 32-inch waist.
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This could also explain why the interest spike quickly tapers off after a new release.
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The number of separate spouses tapers off as people trade full-time employment for retirement.
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Traditional tapers are most common, but Mr. Hunter suggests trying votive or pillar candles instead.
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And give or take other life obligations, like children and jobs, the various NYC Tapers can often be seen hanging out even if only one of them is necessary to make a recording, easily spotted forming a collective tapers' section, like a school of fish.
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Wang expects momentum to pick up in the months ahead as the pollution crackdown tapers off.
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The device has a rectangular bulge, from which the body tapers down to a 3.5mm point.
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The lens itself is partially collapsable and tapers off to about the size of a dime.
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The clamshell has straighter diamond-cut lines with less curves and tapers, and you know what?
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Despite gains in the sectors, the broader markets remained muted as quarterly earnings season tapers off.
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Turn the current on and things happen; turn it off and the effect stops or tapers.
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IBM staggers >8 pct as mainframe growth tapers off, software sales slow ** Consumer Discretionary flops 2 pct.
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It opens up tapers to being accused of being dishonest, and we're trying to change that opinion.
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The pruning in the occipital lobe, at the back of the brain, tapers off by age 20.
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Even if crude output tapers, some traders say sustained price recovery will be hard due to the glut.
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The netting's height tapers down from 30 feet high at the dugouts, eventually meeting the foul-territory wall.
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The cylindrical structure flows into a duller, funnel-like cone, which tapers into a tower with rocket nozzles.
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The player then tapers his schedule, resting more to gain sharpness, confidence and a renewed zeal to compete.
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Its distinctive brush, which is wide and tapers toward its wand, makes application easier than with many polishes.
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Interest rates are rising slowly now, as the Federal Reserve tapers off a period of near-zero rates.
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These types of wells produce a lot of oil right after starting up, but their output tapers off quickly.
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The agency warned that developers will face significant credit risk once the government tapers price growth in these cities.
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But that tapers off as your estrogen level starts to rise again and your period starts to wrap up.
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He's noticed that when the bikes first appear out in public, vandalism is rampant and then eventually tapers off.
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But as the rush of fear and excitement tapers off as we realize we'll have to wait them out.
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For the most flattering light, aim for a mix of tapers and votives scattered the length of the table.
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They have a noticeable boost in the bass and lower midrange and their treble response tapers off at the top.
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On their right is a row of houses and shops, which tapers off as they reach the end of town.
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It tapers off toward adolescence, but as our interests shift to social relationships and the robust exchange of ideas — i.e.
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It has a similar physical design, with one thicker side that tapers down on the other side, for one-handed reading.
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Tuesday (20.2 percent) is just behind — and after that task completion perfectly tapers off as the days progress toward the weekend.
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"With gasoline, once we get into the 2020s, demand growth tapers off... and we see a peak around 2030," he said.
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Rapid tapers and apparently-related deaths are still occurring, desperate victims crying out for help on social media [warning: graphic image].
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I know all about a buttery shirt and a long blazer/jacket hybrid that tapers around my rear like wasp wings.
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What should happen is that initial, intense neural activity tapers off over time so long as the sensory input remains constant.
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Both firms are making efforts to reach new consumers in Southeast Asia and rural China as demand tapers off in big cities.
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It is possible that American automakers could get back into the passenger car market if the shift to light trucks tapers off.
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Design-wise, the Genie is similar to the Dot, but it's a little taller and tapers from the bottom to the top.
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"Put in a little effort if you're going to do it," says Pier-Hocking, who would love to see more serious tapers.
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First, the carcass had to be secured around the peduncle, the portion of a whale's body that tapers back to the fluke.
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The handles are 6.75 inches long and are made of a nylon resin that tapers at the end for a better grip.
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Six to 10 inches of rain could fall from San Francisco eastward before the storm tapers off, CNN meteorologist Dave Hennen said Monday.
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The concept is simple: Create a graphic, winged eye that tapers off to a glittery, red tail, and dupe the effect on brows.
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Connected to a phantom power source, these cables allow tapers to use the kind of capsules that once required a full microphone body.
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Services grew 24 percent year over year, and shows that Apple's attempts to boost its Services division as hardware tapers off is working.
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But because EOR wells pump consistently for decades, their value to the company over time exceeds shale wells, whose production quickly tapers off.
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This will depend on the domestic U.K. economy, the path of Brexit negotiations and the pace of EUR appreciation as the ECB tapers.
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But this needs to be done slowly and using evidence-based approaches, which often requires tapers that continue over months or even years.
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The Surface Laptop has a wedge-shaped design and flaunts it hard; you won't find rounded tapers to create the illusion that its thinner.
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Same goes for the orange accent that runs around the bottom and tapers up the sides (but not all the way towards the top).
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That, or you'd have to use snail mail to trade cassettes with fellow tapers, advertising your goods in the back pages of Goldmine magazine.
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"Part of the problem is that tapers aren't done gradually enough," said David Juurlink, professor of medicine and pediatrics at the University of Toronto.
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Others expect a rebound to around $50 or $60 per barrel by year's end as the US shale boom tapers off and demand recovers.
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Flat-topped sedum might reach barely 10 inches, while miscanthus (silver grass) towers eight feet high, with long woolly tapers of seeds drifting down.
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However, almost daily downpours over the past month - a period when the rainy season usually tapers off - have left the unpaved roads there impassable.
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Otherwise, the new XPS 13's still lightweight starting at 2.7 pounds and compact with a design that tapers from 0.46 inches to 133 inches.
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Our emotional well-being will increase as our salary increases but tapers off at around a $75,000 salary per year (Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton).
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The taxonomy gets more sophisticated as these thankless roles split into five archetypes: the duct tapers, the goons, the flunkies, box tickers and task masters.
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The anti-tapers: Gerald Ford gave firm instructions to remove taping equipment after Nixon's scandal, and he only recorded two phone calls with foreign leaders.
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Nemcova plans to open and rebuild even more schools through her foundation, particularly in disaster areas that are forgotten once the emergency response tapers off.
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Sanctioning an official section in the audience for tapers in 22018, the Grateful Dead became known as the most taper-friendly band in the world.
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But the pyramid that is modern American conservatism has always been misshapen, with a wide, squat base that tapers far too quickly at its peak.
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It has pintucks with sharply defined creases, a silhouette that tapers at the ankle, and an elastic waistband for optimal pull-on comfort and ease.
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Tom Niziol, a winter weather expert at The Weather Channel, said the tally could approach 70 inches by Wednesday night before the storm tapers off.
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Shale wells typically produce a burst of oil in their first year of production, but their output drops off quickly and then slowly tapers off.
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About two thirds of prescribers also don't know that the biggest risk for agranulocytosis happen within the first six months, and tapers off after that.
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For our purposes, a black hole might be imagined as a funnel whose spout tapers to a point of infinite density known as a singularity.
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While an initial arc of appreciation for what's new and exciting quickly tapers, the familiar has longevity—perhaps also reflecting some innate biological prejudice against extremes.
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Adding pressure to luxury goods brands, including Coach-owner Tapestry and jeweler Tiffany, is the slowdown they've seen as Chinese tourist spending in the U.S. tapers.
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The end of the week usually tapers off a little, and this is a soft productive task that still ends my week on a high note.
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Unlike the competing proposal from Democratic senators, which tapers off based on income, the Sanders plan would also provide cash to all Americans, including the wealthy.
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Untied, the tenderloin tapers at one end, which means either the thinner side or the thicker side — but not both — can be cooked to pink perfection.
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Contributing to the works' impact is the consistent form of these busts; armless, each tapers to a narrow, integral base located just below the rib cage.
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Eventually the credit tapers off until it's totally eliminated for people making more than four times the poverty line ($97,000 a year for a family of four).
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Los Angeles gives the illusion of an uninhabited oasis cultivated by the Broads and the Tapers instead of the Tongva who lived on the land centuries before.
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A study in 2010 suggested that even though people might be a lot happier on their actual vacation, their happiness tapers off as soon as they get home.
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It's not a perfect square, but rather it tapers off in more pronounced angle in the tradition of the 820 horsepower Vulcan supercar and its smart steering wheel.
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The potential risks when a pregnant woman who suffers from a severe form of depression tapers off her medication could easily outweigh the benefits gained, according to Brown.
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The first couple of doses can take place several in a week, and then it usually tapers to perhaps several times a month, depending on the patient response.
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Recent research has suggested that the anthocyanins have a protective role, keeping the leaf from suffering too much damage from sunlight and oxidation as its function tapers off.
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A big jump in sales usually follows in the holiday quarter, before demand tapers over the next few quarters as customers hold back ahead of the next launch.
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Cadillac said it would reschedule the reveal, so it's possible that if COVID-19 tapers off by late spring and summer, the delay would be a speed bump.
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My training schedule is more structured if I was training for a certain race and I would have various builds and all that kind of stuff and tapers.
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Though, to Harman's credit, the company brings a little bit of design flare to the proceedings, with a conical design that tapers off as it gets to the top.
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The bezel is hardly noticeable, and you can reach most of the screen with your thumb—the phone feels very thin, partly because the body tapers towards the edges.
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Due to the soil and other environmental conditions, there are some areas where the redwood range just kind of tapers off and the trees don't grow beyond that point.
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It's a little wider with its slightly larger 12.5-inch full HD display (16:9 aspect ratio) and the MacBook tapers to a thinner wedge at its thinnest point.
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About five months ago, and partially in regard to the concerns about forced tapers, we undertook a new project focused on patients on chronic opioid therapy for chronic pain.
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But move to the other end of the building and it is apparent that the facade tapers down to a fine point, before vanishing into the building next door.
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The "affluence elasticity of food waste" is a new concept from this study that finds food waste increases quickly at first, then the increase "tapers off" as wealth grows.
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" The short story opens with a description of the tree "lighted by a multitude of tapers" and decorated with ornamental guns, pincushions, pen wipers, sugarplums, "teetotums" and "humming-tops.
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A good, all-purpose stemmed glass ought to be vertically shaped, with a tall bowl that opens wide at the stem and then tapers gently inward toward the lip.
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In "Summer Forever," repeated steps send Tymberly Canale hopping from side to side with carefully angled arms; there's a frantic, dark quality to her rushing patterns that eventually tapers off.
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Street Fighter V pro Ryota "Kazunoko" Inoue was playing as the character Cammy on Sunday, whose default costume is a green singlet that tapers down into a thong-like bottom.
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Each kit contains two shades of powder — to achieve organic-looking ombré color that tapers off towards the ends — and a soft wax topcoat to keep it all in place.
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Some of the teak seating around the planters tapers down to planks only a few inches tall — as if they had been set aside for the comfort of visiting hamsters.
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Yet for all that the book gestures at a kind of political allegory, it shies away from the capital-S Scene it seems to promise and tapers away into anticlimax.
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That could raise the geopolitical risk premium in oil markets and ultimately disrupt crude output, potentially sending prices higher as supply tapers off at a time of robust oil demand.
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" When asked whether other airlines would step up if China's demand for planes tapers as a result of trade tensions with the United States, Smith said "we've certainly got strong demand.
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The second generation Kindle e-reader essentially sent the tone for all that came after it: a centered, portrait-mode rectangle screen and uniform body that tapers subtly at the edges.
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While nearly 70 million barrels of inventory decreases have been reported this summer, the market is waiting for a signal after the Labor Day holiday, when demand usually tapers, he said.
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The e-reader has the same aluminum body (available in graphite or champagne gold) that tapers from 2003 inches at its thicker grip section to 2200 inches at its thinnest point.
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Even if the severity of the selling tapers off, 2016 will likely continue to be a bad year for stocks, said Mohannad Aama, managing director at Beam Capital Management in New York.
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In October, the Department of Health and Human Services added to the chorus with a tapering guide that urges physicians to avoid rapid tapers and to consider the needs of individual patients.
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"Maxar is not yet out of the woods but we see a viable path forward as the investment cycle tapers off and cost reduction efforts offset lower volumes at SSL," Arnstein said.
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Secondly, benzodiazepine withdrawal can last months or even years in some cases—and if tapers aren't conducted slowly and carefully, people's ability to function at home and at work can be destroyed.
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The myth and popular image of "the taper" persists, even though there haven't really been tapes since the early 2000s, when most tapers switched from DAT to laptops and finally to portable drives.
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Types of red wine glassesStandard red wine glass: Mostly used for Cabernet, Merlot, Bordeaux, or similar varietals, this tall glass has a full sized bowl that tapers a little bit at the top.
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"At these moments, employers shed less-skilled workers and replace them with technology and higher-skilled workers, which increases labor productivity as a recession tapers off," the authors of the Brookings post wrote.
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White tapers burn on every table, wall sconces throw off Cognac-colored light from behind lampshades the size of teacups, a collection of thin flowery china dishes supplements the chunky white bistro ware.
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Unlike a standard magnifying glass, which is thick in the center and tapers off tower the edges, a Fresnel lens is thin—little more than a flat plastic sheet with ridges on one side.
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Autoliv argues it is on the cusp of accelerating growth just as the extra spending it needed to deliver on new orders tapers off, expecting to exceed a $22020 billion sales target for 22019.
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Though the new iPhone XS and XS Max include stereo mics, most serious tapers scoff at those holding their phones aloft during performances, regarding them as disruptive to musicians and fellow audience members alike.
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A glass with a rim that tapers and then flares slightly still effectively holds the wine's aroma, while directing the flow of wine toward the front palate, highlighting rich fruit flavors while tempering acidity.
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This water shedding tapers off after about of week but from what I can glean any weight loss associated from your body cannibalizing your muffin tops for fuel is, for me, likely weeks away.
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But Rio is expected to tell a meeting of investors and analysts on Thursday that it expects iron ore prices to recoil next year, as demand from Chinese steel mills tapers off, according to analysts.
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And when asked by a reporter why he didn't stop the chant, Trump claimed he "started speaking very quickly" — even though footage shows him pausing for a solid 12 seconds before the crowd tapers off.
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And the circular jaguar crest at its center could be imagined as if it's the animal's snout, flanked by a pentagon that borrows from the F-type intakes and tapers into a mean lower lip.
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While it is common for monthly import volumes to drop in February as peak-winter demand tapers off, that marked the biggest monthly decline from January to February since at least 2013, the data showed.
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The rouble could recover if the flow of news about sanctions tapers off, but a further rouble drop to 68 per dollar cannot be ruled out, said Denis Davydov, economist at Nordea Bank in Moscow.
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Mics powered by active cables can more easily be hidden in a hat and smuggled into the front row, making them a boon to "stealth tapers," who do their best to record without being noticed.
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We were surprised to see a reference to work done by the Bree Collaborative as an example of a public program advocating involuntary tapers among patients on chronic opioid therapy for pain; this is incorrect.
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Or what had been the pond before it overflowed its banks and drowned the meadow and the campsite and the fire pit we used to turn our spits over, the tusky wooden tapers of our spits.
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The remedy to the problems detailed in the letter, she said, was to educate primary care doctors about how to provide "safe, compassionate, patient-centered tapers when medically indicated," which can be a protracted, delicate process.
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While some data suggests that some patients improve with voluntary dose reductions—higher doses may sometimes paradoxically increase pain, a phenomenon known as hyperalgesia—none shows that forcible tapers do more good than harm in pain care.
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Another large group of physicians — including some strong supporters of the guidelines as written — recently published a journal article calling involuntary tapers a "large-scale humanitarian issue" and demanding that they be prohibited or at least minimized.
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And, because human crying frequency tends to dip in the teens and early-to-mid adulthood, I learned that my years of tearlessness fell roughly within established trends for when crying tapers and then starts up again.
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Deere and other agriculture equipment manufacturers have continued to invest millions in acquisitions, research and development even as demand for farm equipment and machinery tapers off in the wake of the weakest U.S. farm economy in 30 years.
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The perfectly binge-able schedule is filled with nostalgic Disney movies (The Hunchback of Notre Dame is finally getting the respect it deserves), and tapers into festive classics like Home Alone, and Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
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The polished glass is slippery and the phone's one of the thicker ones (9.6mm or 43 inches), but the curves and tapers make it easier to front-pocket than the Pixel 2 XL, which is about the same size.
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Taking all of this into account, here is the math I came up with: Annual Mileage: Average length of a taxibot shift = 17 hours (use tapers off in the middle of the night as Angelenos drift off to sleep).
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"I'm down here to vote against Trump," said Estraya Ingel, a middle-aged blackjack dealer in the Centennial Hills neighborhood of Las Vegas, where the city's sprawl tapers into the former horse ranches and scrub brush of rural Nevada.
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The new netting at Yankee Stadium tapers down from 20 feet high behind the plate to 9½ feet high above both dugouts and then 5½ feet above the railings in front of the high-priced seats down both lines.
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Mark Moerdler of Sanford C. Bernstein, a research firm, thinks that once Microsoft tapers its investments in data centres and their utilisation goes up, it could approach the margins enjoyed by AWS, which reached more than 30% in the last quarter.
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That's because plugs have a tapered shape that begins small at the top, becomes large in the middle, and tapers back down to a slim diameter at the neck of the toy right before the flared base at the bottom.
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Quiroga accepted his reasoning; it was true that to calibrate the luminescent effect of the precious feathers, the artists worked mostly at night and in environments of controlled light: windowless sheds in which the only sources of light were beeswax tapers.
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Congress has now passed three major bills in response to the coronavirus, and it's unclear, legislatively, what their next steps are as lawmakers head out of town for several weeks for recess and the political will to do more tapers.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's economy is likely to continue a moderate recovery as downward pressure seen in the last quarter tapers off, although the new coronavirus outbreak creates uncertainty on the economic outlook, Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Friday.
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Attacks have increased in recent weeks since the end of the rainy season allowed the terrorists to move more freely out of their redoubts in the Sambisa Forest (fighting usually tapers off in the wet season as mud-track roads turn into rivers).
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The move comes as container port traffic in North America, which had been strong in the last couple of years, tapers off amid weaker global economic demand and a strong U.S. dollar that have contributed to over capacity and depressed freight rates.
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When the psychosis tapers off, depression takes its place and Lukach not only has to hide Giulia's medication so that she doesn't overdose in an attempt to kill herself but also inspect her mouth to make sure she's swallowed what she's supposed to.
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TOKYO, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Japan's economy is likely to continue a moderate recovery as downward pressure seen in the last quarter tapers off, although the new coronavirus outbreak creates uncertainty on the economic outlook, Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Friday.
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"I do think that once in a while they'll come across a significant investment opportunity where they'll be able to deploy, not all of it, but a significant portion of that capital, especially after some of this regulatory scrutiny tapers down," he said.
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And all we can hear of him is his signature call, several times throughout the film: a steam whistle that soars to a high-pitched scream and then tapers off, in pitch and volume, until it fades into some kind of mournful death.
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The piece, which is wide at the base and tapers toward the top, is roughly reminiscent of an obelisk, that most ancient of monuments, but its entire surface records the imprints of fists, knees, elbows, and feet: evidence of a furious and thorough beating.
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This hi-def clarity tapers off at the edges, where, as in the image at the gallery entrance, chunks of background cut in at canted angles; rich streams of information are abruptly overwritten by blackness, seeming to encroach on the skin of the screen.
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Samsung and LG have experimented with more radically curved options, including the Galaxy Round, LG G Flex and Galaxy Note Edge, but it is the subtle tapers that were part of last year's Galaxy S6 Edge that seemed to enjoy the most widespread acceptance.
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The rounder and curvier "water drop" design isn't a wedge like on the Pixel and Pixel XL, which has a profile that tapers; the back's still said to be flat (for the rumored wireless charging), and it's just the corners and edges that might get slightly more sculpted.
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At least in the world of traditional tapers, there is a premium placed on recording quality, but it is equally the domain of debased and marginalized formats, from wire recorders to reels, from cassettes to minidiscs, and the never-ending race to preserve the music contained on them.
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WHATEVER ELSE PEOPLE COULD SAY ABOUT GOLDMAN FROM TIME TO TIME, NOBODY DOESN'T THINK WE HAVE GREAT PEOPLE INCLUDING VERY SENIOR PEOPLE, SOME OF WHOM STICK WITH THE FIRM AND MOSTLY THERE COMES A POINT AT WHICH YOUR CAREER TAPERS OFF AND PEOPLE GO OUTSIDE WHERE THEY DO FANTASTIC THINGS.
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BULGARI SERPENTI SEDUTTORI ROSE GOLD AND DIAMONDS $27,100 Bulgari's snake-inspired Serpenti motif appears in jewelry and handbags but it comes to life most vividly as a watch: The version with a wraparound bracelet that tapers from swollen snakehead to poised tail is one of the most recognizable forms in women's watch design.
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I prepared myself emotionally for the fact that I wouldn't be getting a quintessential full-figured beauty that's perfectly lush at the bottom and gradually tapers off towards the ceiling, because the only space I have is the gap between my coat rack and the section of floor where my roommate and I throw our shoes.
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A pant leg tapers into a limp elastic cuff that reeks of Zara athleisure; a garish pink hoodie with three-quarter length sleeves seems better suited for a Jared Leto press tour than a half-pipe; an innocent white jacket is desecrated with a fire-breathing unicorn graphic that looks like a DeviantArt riff on the Mozilla Firefox logo.
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Formats like autoplaying Facebook videos pop up, he explained, and everyone's News Feed is flooded with a new type of video that can be enjoyed without sound and grabs your attention in a few seconds; after a couple years, though, viewers' interest in that genre of video tapers off and the media companies that rushed into the fad are left holding the rope.
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His most emotional response, however, is reserved for the humans who braved the underland millennia before: the mourners who laid corpses there, gently covered with a swan's wing, or with coins pressed on their eyes to pay their fare across the Styx; or the artists who, at Chauvet in France, left their palettes and tapers below the bison they had painted.
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A thin-and-light 15-inch laptopPriceStarts at $1,100 ($2,650 as tested)LikeSleek design, vivid OLED display, combo fingerprint reader/power buttonDon't LikeCould use one more port, bottom-mounted speakers, OLED screen doesn't support touchAt the back, the XPS 15 measures 0.66-inches thick, before it tapers down to 0.45-inches in front, with a selection of ports on either side including a two USB 3.1 ports, one USB-C port with Thunderbolt 1003, a full-size HDMI port, and a headphone jack.
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Although Special Operations MH-6M Little Bird helicopters were integrated with US Navy forces during Operation Earnest Will, which tried to protect convoys of tankers against Iranian attacks between 1987 and 1988, this was the first exercise of its kind in the Persian Gulf linking the patrol coastal fleet with a Poseidon and AC-130W Stinger II.The Gulf tapers into a vital choke point — the Strait of Hormuz — where roughly 21 million barrels of oil per day are carried on large commercial vessels, about 21% of the globe's liquid petroleum liquids consumption.
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There are the "flunkies," who are hired to make other people feel important, like the publishing-company receptionist whose responsibilities were limited to filling the mint jar and answering the phone a few times a day; the "goons," who aggressively sell people things they don't need or want, like the call-center employees who pitch expensive credit reports to people who could get them free; and the "duct tapers," who exist only because of a "glitch" in an organization, like the woman who had to proofread research reports written by a statistician who was a terrible writer.
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It's ambiguous 26:00 Why the Dead chose not to wade into politics 373:27 Garcia was terrified of his own charisma 29:45 How the Dead's aversion to authority begot decentralized communities and economies; tapers and proto-viral marketing 200:247 The Dead were not business savvy (break) 250:249 "Dark Star" 207/250/093 Fillmore East, New York, NY (Charlie Miller/soundboard) 209:203 What it was like being raised by Deadheads 277:28 "In order for the grateful dead to continue the grateful dead has to die and be reborn in some new form" (Amir) 39:33 Fractured groups of people!
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