This ratio is just one percentage point away from an annual pessimistic peak point to extreme skepticism among short-term options players.
The highest point of The Peak has been the place to live ever since the British came here in the 19th Century.
The bursting of the tech bubble and the minor recession of 2001 knocked about a point off the peak rate of 67.3% in April 2000, but even after the Great Recession ended in June 2009 the rate was 65.7%.
Most students of economics are familiar with the Laffer curve, named by Dr. Art Laffer, which demonstrates how higher taxes do not necessarily mean a higher tax yield, with there being a point (the peak of his curve) after which total revenue falls when the tax rate increases.
Also up there is the fallout from a global economic collapse, possibly resulting from a state of peak oil -- the point where oil production reaches its peak and thereafter goes into freefall.
It's over three billion units at this point and at its peak, it was on two-thirds of the world's cellphones.
In May 2011, crude oil prices topped out, which was several months ahead of the typical July seasonal peak (point 8).
That is, wind power is almost always going to fail as a generating source just at the point of our annual peak demand.
The figures from Aberdeen suggested prices had returned to a point closer to that peak level, remaining the highest average price of any city or region in the country.
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The recovery from the lowest point to above a previous peak took two and a half years on average, he says.
The idea that we might have reached peak Google: the point at which we get no more growth from the company.
The Bureau waits until the data show whether or not a decline is large enough to qualify as a recession before declaring that a turning point in the economy is a true peak marking the onset of a recession.
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So from their point of view, asking rich nations to peak their emissions within a few years and halve them within five isn't unreasonable - especially, as another portion of the text says, that the problem of greenhouse warming has been on the radar for so long that rich countries could have peaked their emissions during the 1990s if they had wanted to.
In New York State, home of nearly one-quarter of the industry's jobs, Wall Street lost 20% of its workers from its peak in December 2000 to its low point in April 2003.
During the last decade, the Finnish cell-phone giant reached the peak of its success, producing at one point more than 40% of all the handsets sold around the globe.
Yields on American ten-year Treasuries jumped more than half a percentage point to 3.5%, a six-month peak.
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Recommended hikes include the two-night, three-day climb up Mwanihana Peak (2, 080m) and the challenging six-day trail to Luhombero Peak (2, 579m), the highest point in the park.
Studies have shown that at peak times 84% of vehicles using the motorway at this point have only one occupant.
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Even the most bearish analysts say Nasdaq could pull back only up to 30% from its Jan. 3 peak, and the Dow could test the 9, 000-point level, down about 20%.
The point here is that there are actually a number of different crude oil markets and peak production in one does not mean peak production in another.
Over the last two years, as prices have soared, proponents of the Peak Oil theory--which argues that we will soon pass the point of being able to replace reserves as fast as they are consumed--have resurfaced in force.
At our peak we had over 70M registered users with 2.5M connected simultaneously at one point.
Pessimists point to 1931-35, when dividends per share in America fell by 45% from peak to trough.
By the second quarter of this year, the last point for which figures are available, Scottish output was 4.4% below its 2008 peak, while UK output was 3.82% down - ie the UK was closer to recovery.
Going into September being the peak part of hurricane season, and with Irene, we didn't want to get to the point where we would not have the funds to continue to support the previous impacted survivors as well as respond to the next disaster.
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