"All sneakers barring restocks from the brand have basically the same trajectory of resale value over time, and I swear to God, it looks exactly like a swoosh," he says.
The trace shown is a fragment of the trajectory obtained from Video 2. (B ) The same trajectory depicted as distance travelled vs time.
Hip-hop histories always have the same trajectory: from rags to riches, from America's bastard child to, as Reeves puts it, "America's new rock 'n' roll".
Same-sex marriage seems destined to have the same trajectory: from being too outlandish to be taken seriously, to being branded offensive and lawless, to eventual acceptance.
While the paths are bent as they enter the particle, they are subsequently bent back so that they re-emerge from the other side on the same trajectory they started with — just as if the particle wasn't there.
"The fact that these wounds follow the same trajectory, from back to front, suggests the position of the victim in relation to the person shooting was always the same and the movement was minimal or nil," the report read.
Asked later whether the same trajectory from tough talk and threats to warmer relations might be repeated with Iran, Trump said he was open to future talks on a different nuclear deal.
Over and over again, his columns lead the reader on the same trajectory from "Aha!" to "Huh?" (And the compilers of this collection have done him no favors by including fragments of the book he was writing toward the end of his life, a meandering essay-cum-memoir that never got beyond an early draft).
The regime did not fall, fighting got more intense each day and there were, give or take a reported disturbance in Basra, few signs of American soldiers being greeted as liberators by Iraqis.To top it off, American reporting of the war followed the same trajectory from exaggerated optimism in the first three days to exaggerated pessimism in the next four.
What explains their persistence (returning to past trajectories following errors) and their plasticity (finding the same trajectory from different starting points)?
