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Line 1. In technical analysis, a situation in which the supply and demand for a security are largely the same. A line means that the security is unlikely to see any rapid fluctuation in price. It is called a line because, when plotted on a graph, it looks like a roughly horizontal line. Technical analysts look for signals that a line is ready to break one way or another before recommending that investors take a position on a security. 2. Informal; workers in a large, industrial company. They are called the line because, historically, they assembled the parts of a product while literally standing next to each other in a long line, also called an assembly line. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Finally, areas with medium to high anti-coalition militia activities or major ground lines of communications (LOCs), such as the Ring Road that connects the major cities, were selected. Ireland also seeks to emphasize and re-emphasize the myriad realistic problems inherent in expeditionary operations caused by overextended lines of communications, unclear objectives, lack of resources and political interference. As a rule, military transport movements were performed within the framework of systematic combat operations, but redeployment of big military units (as big as an infantry division in one go) again turned into naval operations aimed to defend sea lines of communications, necessitating assistance from the main fleet forces. |
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