sweet spot

The New Yorker

If “Bonnie and Clyde” had been made two years earlier, the movie would not have been approved by the M.P.A.A. Two years later, it would have been rated X. The film found a historical sweet spot.

“Bonnie and Clyde,” Fifty Years After

It is one of the oldest American movies you can watch today without feeling like you’re watching an old movie.

NEWYORKER.COM

Australian mining companies, struggling amid a commodities slump, have found an unlikely money-spinner: beef.

Australian Miners Have Sweet Spot in Beef

Australian resources companies have been struggling with falling metals and energy prices, but their beef-rearing operations have been doing well as meat prices soar.

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The Sweet Spot

By BILL KELLER

Mitt Romney and President Obama will both need to remember that candidates don't live by the base alone.

sweet spot 

Pronunciation:

NOUN

informal

1The point or area on a bat, club, or racket at which it makes most effective contact with the ball:a bigger sweet spot for gives off-centre hits

More example sentences

1.1An optimum point or combination of factors or qualities:the market may have reached its sweet spot, with prices high enough to encourage sellers but still low enough to promise a good return