Wheeler Peak English

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Wheeler Peak

— noun a mountain peak in northeastern New Mexico in the Rocky Mountains

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Moreover, fiscal and sovereign-debt strains are becoming worse as interest-rate spreads for Spain and Italy have returned to their unsustainable peak levels.

Malaria deaths in children in Africa were cut from a peak of around one million in 2004 to around 700,000 by 2010, and, worldwide, deaths of pregnant women declined by almost half between 1990 and 2010, from an estimated 543,000 to 287,000.

The Wall Street Journal's Justin Lahart reports that the 2010 share was higher than the previous peak share in 2006.

The dollar remains the world's reserve currency, and investors' scramble into US government debt at every peak in the crisis since 2008 has underscored America's safe-haven status (even in crises that America caused).

Even when its energy dependence on the Middle East was at its peak, the US rarely altered its policy of support for Israel.

The output gap reflects a deficit of more than 12 million jobs - the number of jobs needed to return to the economy's peak 2007 employment level and absorb the 125,000 people who enter the labor force each month.

Oil prices gradually fell, and the stock market began its long climb towards its peak in 2000.

The peak ratio and the subsequent downward trajectory depend crucially on the assumed pace of economic growth.

Support for EU membership within the pre-enlargement EU-15 remains where it was in the mid-1990's (and below the peak reached in 1990), while support for the euro is no higher now than it was in 1997.

Not only will battery-powered vehicles draw power from the electricity grid during recharging, but, when parked, they can also feed additional power back into the grid during periods of peak demand.

Fiscal and monetary stimulus may have been appropriate at the peak of the crisis, but they will do little to address the biggest threat to the continent's long-term prospects: a toxic twosome of weak demographics and low investment.

Increased fear of competition from emerging countries is also a natural consequence of the collapse of the speculative bubble in equities in 2000; stock markets in some countries fell to less than half their peak value.

Today, the real price of oil is nearly twice as high as it was at the peak of that crisis, but we have seen nothing like the images from 1973-5.

And increasing rewards for those at the increasingly sharp peak of the income distribution have not called forth enough enterprising market competition to erode that peak.

Private-sector employment is still down 4.1 million from its January 2008 peak.

Since its introduction, the euro has fallen further from its peak then even the Nasdaq in the high-tech sell-off of earlier this year.

In Singapore, regulators are developing an innovative Electricity Vending System to give 1.2 million consumers real-time price signals so that they can learn to conserve electricity during peak periods.

To do this, Iran would have to boost its total output (including domestic consumption) to six million barrels per day, roughly equal to its peak production in the 1970s.

I was in Beijing in the fall of 2007, when the Shanghai Composite Index skyrocketed to almost 6,000 (the recent peak was just over 5,000), owing partly to the participation of relatively inexperienced retail investors.

Certain Chinese scholars are now writing about the decline of the US, with one identifying the year 2000 as the peak of American power.

The Shanghai stock market index soared from 2,200 a year ago to a peak of 5,100 in mid-summer and then dropped sharply, to about 3,000 now.

The last decade saw the peak of an unprecedented housing boom in most of the rich world.

All of these countries are also determined to restore their output to previous peak levels and should be able to pump more oil than they did in the 1970s and 1980s by exploiting new production technologies pioneered in the US.

But the comparison is misleading, because 2007 was the peak of a credit bubble that led to a lot of wasteful investment.

To be sure, the authorities have suffered some defections, with the most significant coming soon after the violence in Homs reached its peak, when the deputy energy minister resigned and joined the opposition.

It coincided with the peak of the West's belief in its soaring economic strength and perpetual global ascendancy.

To be sure, the US now has more power resources relative to other countries than Britain had at its imperial peak.