11.   Or are these intransigent people the outliers, the extreme edge of the bell curve?

12.   Sigma is the Greek letter that statisticians use to define a standard deviation from a bell curve.

13.   The middle of the bell curve, they say, is composed of a much larger contingent falling between those extremes.

14.   There are more boys at the extremes, further out on both tails of the statistical bell curve of academic achievement.

15.   This year at the four-hour barrier, the one most accessible to the average runner, the bell curve cracked.

16.   Using bell curves, charts and quoting Eleanor Roosevelt as well as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Chapman makes a case against age discrimination.

17.   Using the Morningstar bell curve, then, it would be more difficult for good funds to get top ratings.

18.   Without legislation, e-commerce will remain an uncertain marketplace in which only those consumers who are on the fringes of the bell curve will participate.