See one of my previous columns on breaking weight loss plateaus through exercise.
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When this curve plateaus and begins to decline, top talent desperately attempts to find the exit door.
Maturity, for a first growth vintage wine is 25 years or so, but then it plateaus for a couple more decades.
Every retailer that has reached a certain size--Wal-Mart, Sears, McDonald's (nyse: MCD - news - people )--inevitably plateaus.
It is at these plateaus that a CEO needs help surveying the landscape and generating insights that can illuminate a path forward.
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Along the way there are plateaus where the landscape has changed, the terrain is unfamiliar and the route to the next summit is unclear.
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Every retailer that has reached a certain size--Wal-Mart, Sears, McDonald's--inevitably plateaus.
Let inventiveness again lead the country to new plateaus of high growth and to new solutions for the problem of bringing everyone into the Internet age.
Weight loss plateaus are incredibly frustrating and incredibly common.
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The Ecuadorian Andes are a fiendish proposition for any transport planner: a three-mile high spine of mountains that runs down the centre of the country, unfolding into high plateaus, fissuring into canyons and sheltering mist-shrouded old towns.
Gangs of workers are rebuilding the Beijing-to-Lhasa road that crosses the Qinghai and Tibetan plateaus: a government minister says China will build 150, 000km (about 94, 000 miles) of new highways in western China over the next decade.
This type of training can also help prevent weight loss plateaus, which often occur during weight loss accompanied by exercise because the fitter or trimmer that you are, the fewer calories you burn doing the same workout.
In 1993, the French department of public works staged an open competition to build a high bypass bridge between plateaus at the top of the gorge, based on an initial concept by its engineer, Michel Virlogeux, who proposed a multispan, cable-stayed bridge with a phalanx of seven masts supporting cable fans.
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