Still, there have been exceptions to the rule of starting at a low point.
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At a low point, Heidi realized life is short and decided to follow her passion.
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Starting something at a low point pretty much insures a trend in any randomly distributed variable.
When Van Morrison recorded Astral Weeks in 1968, he had reached a low point in his life.
Popular singer Kavita Krishnamurthy says she has never seen Bombay's entertainment industry at such a low point.
At the same time, Mendillo also purchased private equity assets at a low point in the secondary market.
The data show sales hitting their highest mark in 10 months, up 34% above a low point in 2010.
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Scores for the latter, on the other hand, began to sink, reaching a low point of 23.1 on March 21.
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In its 2012 annual earnings conference call, Conoco admitted that 2013 will represent a low point as far as production is concerned.
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Prosecutors are studying companies that seem to have shown a pattern of granting options when their stocks were at a low point.
Trading most recently at a lofty 42 times trailing earnings, the stock has climbed 22, 000% since a low point just after the 1987 crash.
First, it tells us that when President-elect Barack Obama enters office next week, Israel's relations with the US will be at a low point.
So, BHP saw opportunity when Potash was at a low point.
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According to Britain's Office for National Statistics (ONS), household expenditure on domestic service hit a low point in 1978, since when it has quadrupled in real terms.
When she finally accused him, he blew up because he was at a low point and she was blindsiding him with an accusation that was far from true.
In 1931, Rogers' radio broadcast at a low point in the Great Depression included a folksy chat with President Herbert Hoover to kick off a nationwide unemployment relief campaign.
Murdoch has come back when the firm is once again at a low point, at least as far as its stock is concerned--Premiere's shares have fallen by a quarter since July 2007.
Relations between Bolivia and Peru hit a low point, after the Peruvian Justice demanded the arrest of Walter Chvez Snchez, a Peruvian national, important communications advisor and close friend of President Evo Morales.
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In the nineteen-eighties, during a low point for the Democrats, it was Democratic governors like Bill Clinton, not the unpopular Democratic-controlled House, who pointed the way out of the wilderness for the Party.
Mr. Cuomo's political fortunes have ebbed and flowed during the past decade, hitting a low point following his failed gubernatorial bid in 2002 and the very public end to his marriage to Kerry Kennedy.
For example, mergermarket recently reported that defense company Oshkosh could see interest in its Pierce Manufacturing fire truck and McNeilus garbage truck units from financial buyers, but is unlikely to sell at a low point in the economy.
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"Production fell 38.2%t in the first quarter from the first quarter last year but it rose 7.2% from the fourth quarter of 2008, which shows that the final quarter of last year represented a low point in the (production) cycle, " he said.
For Chapple-Hyam it was really a day of redemption after having hit the heights with Dr Devious and other classic winners he opted to leave for Hong Kong, which was a low point in his career and he decided on a low key return to Europe.
I'm not saying that the program that he outlined is the sole reason for, but the amount of money that was put out there in order to help refinance has indeed helped to drive down the overall rate that we find at such a low point right now.
Representative MARILYN MUSGRAVE (Republican, Colorado): So it was a very low point for Republicans, the worst time since Watergate, and you really do a lot of soul-searching when you take a beating like that.
Yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury bonds fell to 1.41%, a new low point.
Today Munich is seen as a shameful low point in British diplomacy.
And 2012 could turn out to be a real low point, which given the seriousness of the policy issues facing us, would be very bad news.
With the psychology of the individual investor eroded by both the economic slowdown and market volatility, and corporate earnings reaching a defining low point, or bottom, the backdrop for Merrill (nyse: MER - news - people ) can only brighten.
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