Lead-up

Retailers get a lot more business in the lead-up to Christmas.

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While testing the stability of the exchange rate regime in the market is clearly important in the lead-up to adopting the euro, such a test is certainly possible in the context of a CBA: the current account position, the level of reserves, monetary aggregates, growth performance, and interest rates provide clear indications of whether exchange rates are at appropriate levels.

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If the crust does behave as a CP system, stress correlation lengths should grow in the lead-up to large events through the action of small to moderate ruptures and drop sharply once a large event occurs.

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The Tertiary is the lead-up to the extinction event that will take centre stage in later chapters: the megafauna extinctions.

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