After losing money, it cut its break-even point from two-thirds of capacity utilisation to one-third.

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The real point of the two-thirds parliamentary hurdle may be to impress the final arbiter: the constitutional court.

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Although a few big firms dominate slaughtering, it took them 30 years to get to the point where they slaughter about two-thirds of all cattle, and they still have only about 22-24% of cattle under contract.

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Democrat-leaning and bailout recipient Goldman Sachs estimates that an expiration of the tax cut could knock two-thirds of a percentage point off growth in early 2012.

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At that point, the stock had lost nearly two-thirds of its value in just three months.

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At one point the plantations of St Domingue provided two-thirds of France's overseas wealth.

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It's over three billion units at this point and at its peak, it was on two-thirds of the world's cellphones.

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One study found that two-thirds of American women had at some point switched from full-time work to part-time or flexible time to balance work and family.

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Historically, around two-thirds of voters have made their decision by this point in the campaign cycle, a share that has fallen slightly over the years (to 55% in 1992).

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Yet, more than two-thirds of those 65 and older will need long-term personal care at some point in their lives.

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