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high-water mark The line on shore marked by the reach of the medium tide and which usually determines the boundary between private property and public property. Some jurisdictions limit private property to the shoreline, which is the highest reach of the waves inward to the land. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Which is not to say it's not worth it (though you might want to save your money for the impending goody-filled DVD release): Directed by Martin Scorsese and aided and abetted by Band leader Robbie Robertson, ``The Last Waltz,'' even before its soundtrack was cleaned up and made pristine, was one of the high-water marks in the concert-film genre. The big investment "seems to indicate we're heading back toward the high-water marks of $250 a foot and beyond we saw in the late 1980s," commented Bill Boyd, who heads big brokerage CB Commercial Real Estate Group Inc. Over the past 20 years the two high-water marks of public support were in 1974 on the eve of the Nixon resignation, and in 1991, during the congressional debate on the Gulf War. |
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