The number of flies that reached a mark at the top of the vial within 10 seconds was recorded.
The markings on the outer tube reflect a 10-to-1 ratio, so that an inch of rain would reach a mark 10 inches from the bottom.
In 2010, the studio opened "The King's Speech" in just four theaters over Thanksgiving weekend, and slowly expanded that total over the next couple of months; the Best Picture winner reached a high-water mark of 2,386 theaters on Feb. 25, 2011 and earned $135 million at the North American box office.
The news was better in Fargo and neighboring Moorhead, Minn., where the north-flowing Red River reached a high-water mark of nearly 39 feet on Saturday night, short of early predictions but high enough to make it the fourth-largest flood on record.
Last year, when the government reached a high-water mark of enthusiasm for action, it looked as if the strategy might embrace a minimum price per alcoholic unit like the one the Scottish government intends to bring in this year.
In 2009, the year before Abrahams was appointed, total boardroom pay reached a high water mark of £4m after former chief executive Andy Duncan walked away with nearly £1.5m for his last year.
It reached a high water mark of ecclesiastical drama at the Second Vatican Council.
One has to admire his ambition, but the great thing about movies of the last few years is that family comedies have reached a new high-water mark of laughs -- which "Disguise" falls short of.
"Catchment area cheats reached a high water mark a couple of years ago - probably because the profile of punishments has been raised since then - but there are still plenty of parents who stretch the truth and many of them don't think of it as cheating," she says.
An attempt was made to interview 57 entrepreneurs who lived with their businesses for more than three years and reached the mark of the first five years.
