"Why did you remove somebody else's putty from the flat, Mr. Bell?" he asked again and again, as Detective Bell waffled, trying to avoid saying that he had suspected that it might be a plastic explosive.
Drug distributor Cardinal Health was flat after the bell despite a credit downgrade by Moody's Investors Services.
Bell chime, (from medieval Latin cymbala, meaning "bells") set of stationary bells tuned in a musical series, traditionally in diatonic sequence (seven-note scale) plus a few accidentals (sharps and flats).
Because of their shape (with sloped shoulders and a flat base) the bells are seen as representations of the sitting Buddha, and are accorded similar respect; those striking the bell will first make three bows towards it, just as they would before a statue of Buddha.
The opening bell looks flat for the broader market.
Alcoa, which will be the first Dow Jones industrial average component to report earnings after the closing bell, was flat.
( BellSouth, the third and by far the smallest of the three major Bells, reported flat wireline revenue).
Simulation results suggested that the C V curves were camel-shaped for RTIL ions near the atomically flat surface, while a bell-shaped C V curve was recognized for the corrugated cases [32].
Three types of hole surface contours, i.e., convex, flat, and concave (reverse bell-shaped), were obtained within the operating range used, in which the first two types have rarely been reported in literature.
So, after a long time, the contour looks like a bell with a flat top and very steep lateral sides, which propagate to the left and right symmetrically.
