Take the compass with the setting you just locked in, and placing the point as close to the corner of the box as you can, tick off the distance on the line that makes up that side of the box.
Mr. Obama's margins have been narrower in Nevada, but Mr. Romney has a different type of problem there: perhaps 70 percent of the state has already voted, and Democrats have locked in roughly a 7-point advantage over Republicans from the vote so far.
We have a very short window to dramatically reduce climate pollution before we lock in tipping points and catastrophic warming.
Men, let go of the need to know based on a locked-in point of view.
Nancy Packes, the president of the project marketing division of Brown Harris Stevens, which is handling sales at the Azure, said the sponsor had agreed to pay points to lock in current interest rates for an 18-month period so that buyers need not worry that their mortgages will cost more when the building is finally completed.
Investors were locking in profits from Wednesday's 102-point rally, which was inspired by a 145-point sell-off on Tuesday.
For example, Continental Home Loans in Melville, N.Y., asks for a point upfront to lock in for 60 days, said Michael McHugh, the company president.
Investors may also have sold shares to lock in gains from Monday's 413-point rally in the Dow.
Also, doing this prevents the bitten area from being stuck even more in the shark's mouth, as shark teeth are pointed inward to lock in their prey.
But if he only gains a point or so in the poll of polls, on the other hand, then that's a clear sign that the two coalitions are really pretty much locked in at this point, and that even though the race is tight Romney's path to victory remains extremely difficult to map.
Grab the axle on the side that is still locked in place and point the end that you've just loosened, up.
