Word: peaking
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...this took a toll on sales and earnings at upscale department stores and chi-chi fashion houses around the world. Luxury department store sales are down 25% to 30% on average from their peak in early 2008, estimates Aggarwal...
Lipsitch said that the H1N1 vaccine might be widely available by December or January, but he estimates that the number of people with the flu will peak in October or November...
...chases after Hermione Granger (Emma Watson). Both in and out of the classroom, the Potter characters learn to brew love potions as relationships foment between Ron and Hermione as well as Harry and Ginny. The acting in “Half-Blood Prince” is at its series peak. Although greatness can be expected from the giants of British acting that appear throughout the film—Alan Rickman as Snape, Michael Gambon as Dumbledore, Helena Bohman Carter as Bellatrix Lestrange, among others—the most surprising depth is seen in the younger actors, especially Watson...
...both is tricky, but you have to give yourself permission to take one and put it in the backseat. It can be hard. People have exacting standards for themselves and sometimes there’s a feeling that if you can’t do it at peak, you shouldn’t be doing it at all.Finding a happy medium has been challenging, but it has also been a good exercise. When you let something go for a while you get to rediscover what you really love about it, which is something you don?...
...women in the workforce: "After marching steadily upward for five decades, the labor force participation rate of women has essentially flattened out. It now stands at 59%, slightly below the 60% peak it reached in 2000 at the end of a period of robust economic growth, and about 13 percentage points below the current rate for men ... The current economic downturn has hit men harder than women, with men suffering two-thirds of all recession-related job losses...