Following up on Mark's post about William Safire's latest On Language column, Bending the curve , I wanted to share some of the citational history of this particular idiom, as I've been able to piece it together. The brief story can be found in my Aug. 21 Word Routes column on the Visual Thesaurus, The Lexicon of the Health Care Debate . What follows is the long story. The idea that the rise of something undesirable can be altered by bending the curve has been around for quite a
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