Once they peak and begin to decline, lending conditions tighten, and banks find themselves repossessing houses whose value does not cover the value of the debt.

Thus the peak value of the mains voltage in the USA is about 120 2, or about 170 volts.

Peak time The peak time is the time required for the response to reach the first peak of the overshoot.

Off peak Peak demand is considered to be the opposite to off peak hours when power demand is usually low.

The peak to peak voltage, being twice this, is about 340 volts.

Its highest peak, Ras Dashan (4550 m), is the highest peak in Ethiopia.

Peak load Peak demand, peak load or on peak are terms used in energy demand management describing a period in which electrical power is expected to be provided for a sustained period at a significantly higher than average supply level.

A similar calculation indicates that the peak to peak mains voltage in Europe is about 650 volts.

Well, I think out ahead of us a few decades is peak gas, and beyond that, peak renewables.

And so, 25 years ago, there was a peak oil just like, in the 1920s, there was a peak coal and a hundred years before that, there was a peak wood.

It is the second highest peak in the Alaska Range, and the third highest peak in the United States.

The highest peak is the Peak of Speleologists () but the dominant summit is a typical pyramidal horn of the Arabika Mount ().

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.

Large geomagnetic storms are most common during the peak of the eleven year sunspot cycle or during the three years after the peak.

In his 1908 essay Der moderne Denkmalkultus (The modern cult of monuments) he describes historical value, artistic value, age value, commemorative value, use value, and newness value.

because the real peak is hidden around the corner.

This is about 1990 peak of the crack epidemic.

Zimbabwe faced 231 million percent peak hyperinflation in 2008.

The average reduction was 40 since the national peak.

But by reducing your energy use, pretty much at the peak times usually when you have you air conditioning on, or other times like that this generates the peak power at the peak usage time, so it's very complementary in that sense.

Brazil s stock market, as measured by the inflation corrected Bovespa index, has more than quadrupled in value since President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva s first election victory in October 2002, and is now at almost twice the peak achieved in 2000.

So about seven years, eight years to reach your peak, and then gradually you fall off your peak, until you go back to the starting point.

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.

But when he reached the mountain peak, he found the peak covered with countless flags of world conquerors before him, each one claiming 'I was here first' ...

Some who believe in the imminence of peak oil consider these barriers essentially irrelevant, arguing that their removal would merely delay the peak for a few years.

They show their peak activity just before the winter season.

At Napoli, Maradona reached the peak of his professional career.

Under Emperor Diocletian, the persecution of Christians reached its peak.

It is a fresh crater with a distinctive central peak.

We are now entering the peak of the lean season .

(b) Refer to Annex 1 for details of peak year.

) If the fair value is less than carrying value (impaired), the goodwill value needs to be reduced so the carrying value is equal to the fair value.

But the track record of peak oil theorists on such matters has not been impressive their predictions have steadily moved forward the date that global oil production will peak.

Barring unexpected shocks, I believe that China s inflation may peak soon.

Its ad prices reached a peak in season seven at 737,000.

The next week the song reached a new peak of 75.

The following week it climbed to its peak of number seven.

The climatological peak of activity is around September 11 each season.

It reached its peak of number two on October 25, 2012.

The value of the index in 1751 was 5.1, increasing to a peak of 16.3 in 1813 before declining very soon after the end of the Napoleonic Wars to around 10.0 and remaining in the range 8.5 10.0 at the end of the nineteenth century.

Value Value , or lightness, varies vertically along the color solid, from black (value 0) at the bottom, to white (value 10) at the top.

The highest peak, at 1,156 metres, is Mount Liamuiga on St. Kitts.

The song reached a peak of number six on November 4, 2012.

The following week it climbed to a new peak of number four.

That number has declined from the 1.6 million peak registered in 1993.