Brencourt passed the so-called high-water mark, the point at which investment gains make up for investors' losses, allowing the hedge fund to resume charging performance fees. From Wordnik.com. [Fund Goes to Brink and Back] Reference
We have seen the high-water mark of the Ottoman Empire. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
That, however, was the high-water mark of Rozelle's reign. From Wordnik.com. [In A League Of His Own] Reference
This victory was the high-water mark of Lasker's political power. From Wordnik.com. ['The Man Who Sold America'] Reference
The high-water mark of this brand of revolutionism was reached in the. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement] Reference
In retrospect, that may have been the high-water mark of his campaign. From Wordnik.com. [A Complete and Utter Buzz Kill] Reference
Still, the Communist Party may have reached its post-Soviet high-water mark. From Wordnik.com. [Born Again] Reference
Great piles of trunks, the trunks of old fir and oak, lay above high-water mark. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
That may be close to the high-water mark for this year in terms of filling positions. From Wordnik.com. [In the Loop: U.S. lawmakers visit Haiti and its president . . . that guy] Reference
Waterways: 260 km navigable year round; additional 730 km navigable during high-water season. From Wordnik.com. [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference
Clinton's 1998 tour of the continent was a high-water mark for this overly optimistic vision. From Wordnik.com. [Will The 'Dark Continent' Still Matter?] Reference
Both of these have been lifted up to an elevation of several hundred feet above high-water mark. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Efforts to carry out the policy set forth in Circular 124 reached a high-water mark in mid-1948. From Wordnik.com. [Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965] Reference
He was about forty-five years of age, dressed in a faded cutaway coat, high-water trousers, and an. From Wordnik.com. [Successful Stock Speculation] Reference
Lines of carts were ranged above high-water mark, and the patient horses were decked with flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Where Deep Seas Moan] Reference
The manager gets 20 percent of the profits above the previous highest level -- the high-water mark. From Wordnik.com. [The Hedgies' Tide Rolls Out] Reference
They're probably still richer than you are -- but you don't have nightmares about high-water marks. From Wordnik.com. [The Hedgies' Tide Rolls Out] Reference
Until you get back to the high-water mark, you'll be working for the hedgie equivalent of slave wages. From Wordnik.com. [The Hedgies' Tide Rolls Out] Reference
Even at the black population's high-water mark, Walters says, black turnout rarely exceeded 60 percent. From Wordnik.com. [The District electorate, in black and white] Reference
If the high-water mark is very high, traders flee and managers may fold the fund and try to start a new one. From Wordnik.com. [One Hedge Fund's Wilting Fortunes] Reference
Cruces, after a descent of 114.60 feet; thus making Cruces to be 37.96 feet above high-water mark at Panama. From Wordnik.com. [A General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam, Between Great Britain and the Eastern and Western Parts of the World] Reference
"That may be close to the high-water mark for this year in terms of filling positions," colleague Al Kamen writes today. From Wordnik.com. [The status of Senate-confirmed positions] Reference
No one knew at the time that March 10, 2000, was the high-water mark of the millennial market madness that swept America. From Wordnik.com. [Bull? Bear? Lemming!] Reference
"In fact, there are reasons to believe that the pre-crisis decade set a high-water mark distorted by a variety of forces.". From Wordnik.com. [Will we ever recover from the financial crisis?] Reference
This year will set a new high-water mark for campaign propaganda as we're flooded with web-based, political paraphernalia. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Ressler: FourSquare and Seven Months From Now: Would Lincoln Be on LinkedIn?] Reference
They discovered Togi busy in a small cove where a jagged tangle of drift made a mat dating from the last high-water period. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
As colleague Al Kamen wrote this month, Obama may have reached a high-water mark for this year in terms of filling positions. From Wordnik.com. [Obama makes four recess appointments] Reference
Steed Bonnet and his crew were also tried, and all, except one man, hanged, and buried on White Point, below high-water mark. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
Even if your investors never see the high-water mark again, you don't have to give back any of the fees you've already earned. From Wordnik.com. [The Hedgies' Tide Rolls Out] Reference
LTCM's investors took a huge haircut, which means the managers had to make a zillion percent to return to the high-water mark. From Wordnik.com. [The Hedgies' Tide Rolls Out] Reference
Then the scheme of organization was thoroughly bad -- and the department was at its high-water mark of honest and effective activity. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference
Kentish oak, knowing that the combination of an easterly gale with neap tides sometimes produces an 'in-tide' at high-water, and seeing the. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
If a fund suffers losses in a year, the managers can't start earning lucrative performance fees unless the fund returns above its high-water mark. From Wordnik.com. [The Quitter Economy] Reference
Every sitcom seemed to have an episode where country cousins, wearing high-water britches and carrying patched suitcases, visited their city friends. From Wordnik.com. [Who's A Hillbilly?] Reference
SEC officials both past and current said the level of enforcement in the last couple of years represented a high-water mark, and now will likely recede. From Wordnik.com. [CRACKS IN THE CRACKDOWN] Reference
The 11.9 percent growth rate recorded last year was probably the high-water mark of China's economic miracle; growth could slow to 8 percent or lower in 2009. From Wordnik.com. [Too Large To Grow So Fast] Reference
The high-water mark for U.S. international leadership on environmental issues arose when Ronald Reagan's administration brokered the United Nations treaty on the ozone layer. From Wordnik.com. [Blowhard in Chief] Reference
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