When this is taken into account, the debt-servicing ratio is close to its previous peak when the base rate stood at 15%.

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It is at the base of this peak that the rover expects to find some of the most interesting rocks during its mission, although it will be many months before it gets there.

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Also new in the base village is the Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center with family friendly programming (music, movies, shows) all winter.

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From the road, it can be seen entirely, from its shrubby base to its distinctive double peak, covered all year round with gleaming white snow.

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The year-on-year fall in oil prices is likely to be steepest in the third quarter next year, when the base will be this summer's peak.

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During the celebration, around 3, 000 gauchos pour into Salta city from the surrounding towns for an evening of dance and music around campfires at the base of San Bernardo Hill, a peak that overlooks the capital.

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Wold projects that Netflix will have no problem ending the year with 32.4 million subscribers, finally beating the benchmark for the peak of subscriber-based content, HBO, which has a slightly smaller base this year.

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From 2001-2006, Japan embraced large-scale stimulus, with its monetary base increasing by a mammoth 36% year-on-year at its peak.

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That is well above the base power load and the surge is supplied by less efficient fossil fuel power generators as well as some peak pumped water storage.

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