When somebody wants a first peak at your business, odds are great it will be done over a smartphone and likely via a Facebook referral!
Yesterday the North American International Auto Show kicked off in Detroit, Michigan, with companies unveiling their new vehicles and folks eager to get their first peak.
At the moment some peak time services have empty seats on them while the first off-peak train is extremely over-crowded as passengers wait for the cheaper fares.
It was a time of sharp recession, with the Dow still under 1000, struggling to touch a peak first hit in ... gasp, 1966.
"Point of No Return, " for instance, chronicled Jonny Copp and Micah Dash (the latter whom I knew) and their attempt to make a first ascent on a peak in China.
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Sqn Ldr Than had recently returned from an AMA expedition to China in December 2012, where his team had become the first to reach the peak of the 5, 640m (18, 504 ft) Wupingfeng mountain in Sichuan province.
We were following Exocet, the first ascent route of the peak, put up in 1988.
Morgan Stanley said since the peak in the first quarter, speculative net longs are down 33%.
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After the first rebound from the initial peak, the chartist would be able to establish the downtrend, line E.
It is not normal to start out on a career and find you have reached an unrepeatable peak within the first few years.
The avalanche on the western side of the mountain, America's highest peak, was first thought to have occurred on Thursday, the parks service said Sunday.
For instance, for the first time since the market peak on April 15, UBS says it has seen more net buying of cyclical stocks than defensive names.
There is a risk that price rises will peak after the first quarter of next year, if the past effects of higher oil prices start to work their way out of the consumer-price index.
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However, even here the contribution is strong growing, and given current starts, likely to eclipse the peak set during the first half of the 2000s.
Of over 2, 200 climbers who have made it to the top of the world's tallest peak since it was first conquered, only 19 have done so via this route.
One top-of-mind concern for LPs is the motivation level of the younger partners at some PE firms, particularly partners whose first fund may have been from a peak market vintage.
From the initial Technology Trigger, when software first made blogging easy, to the Peak of Inflated Expectations and the Trough of Disillusionment, thence on to the Slope of Enlightenment and, eventually, the Plateau of Productivity, blogging has passed almost all the way through the Hype Cycle.
In the first quarter, the company expects off-peak seasonality to dampen on-quarter growth, although demand will be up in comparison with the previous year.
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In 1950, a French expedition reached the top of the Himalayan peak of Annapurna in Nepal for the first time.
He reached his peak in the 1920s, winning his first U.S. Open title and holding the world number one spot for seven straight years.
There are two peak sharing times during the day: First between 10 a.m. and noon and then again between 8 and 10 p.m.
Since the first wave of cliff-related selling reached its peak in mid-November, the technical evidence indicated that the market was just correcting and not forming a major top.
It is currently at its lowest reading of all time, and is negative for just the second time ever (the first time was in October 2008, around the peak of the financial crisis).
In peak season, lines form well before the first bus leaves in the morning and get progressively worse, sometimes 90 minutes to get on a bus up.
In the 1940s General Electric opened the first of several factories around Syracuse that, at their peak, employed 17, 000 workers and invented, among other things, over-the-horizon radar.
They have only half the votes at its party conference, compared with 90% at their peak, and in 1996, for the first time, they provided less than half the party's national income.
The Dow first hit 1, 000 way back in 1966 at the peak of a great bull market.
"We forecast earnings to peak from the second quarter of 1998 through the first quarter of 1999, " says Jun Oh of Dongbang Peregrine Securities.
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