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th reshohld

  • n  the starting point for a new state or experience
    on the threshold of manhood
  • n  the smallest detectable sensation
  • n  the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close
  • n  the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway
  • n  a region marking a boundary

  • Considering both inflation and new technologies in dialysis, they arrived at $129,000 as a more appropriate threshold for deciding coverage.
  • Different media have different thresholds for scandal.
  • Under his hypnotic gaze, humanity crossed a threshold from which one could see the abyss.
News & Articles

  • What's Happening - June 18, 2013
    The DeKalb County Local Emergency Planning Committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday, July 1 at 1826 Barber Greene Road. Facilities where extremely hazardous substances are present above specified threshold planning quantities must be among those who participate in the planning with the Local Emergency Planning Committee.
    June 16, 2013 - Valley Free Press
  • Threshold Pharmaceuticals: A Biotech That Investors Need To Know About
    Threshold Pharmaceuticals: A Biotech That Investors Need To Know About        
    June 14, 2013 - The Motley Fool
  • Rhoen Pares Gain After Investor Challenges Threshold Vote
    Rhoen-Klinikum AG (RHK) pared gains in Frankfurt trading after saying shareholder B. Braun Holding GmbH is legally challenging an annual meeting vote to abolish an investor-approval threshold on mergers and other key decisions.
    June 13, 2013 - Bloomberg
Quotes

  • President Bush in People's Daily Online
    Since 2001, we have spent nearly 10 billion dollars to develop cleaner, cheaper, more reliable alternative energy sources, and we are on the threshold of incredible advances,Bush said in his annual State of the Union address.
  • Tim Flannery in Forbes
    What the report establishes is that the amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere is already above the threshold that can potentially cause dangerous climate change,Flannery told the broadcaster late Monday. "We are already at great risk...

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