Word: peak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week the Justice Department pledged publicly to investigate conditions at the Harrison County jail, an 18-year-old facility that was filled to near peak capacity the night of the fire...
...pretty nervous playing in the tournament--in was my first time ever really playing a game in the goal," Judge says with a grin. "It was snowing and cold, I could see pike's Peak from the goal. I remember practicing my slides in the snow...
...after the election, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 26 points, to 1048. Suddenly the Dow was within easy striking distance of a record that had stood unsurpassed for nearly a decade: the peak of 1051.7 reached on Jan. 11, 1973. For about two hours the average slipped, as it has every time the record has been threatened in the past. Then, like a long-distance runner sprinting those last yards toward the tape, the market surged ahead by 20 points in the final hour. When the closing bell rang amid the boisterous cheers of the floor traders...
...last month of My Favorite Year, a film based on Caesar and his court of writers, including Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner. There is also his autobiography, Where Have I Been? (Crown; $12.95). In the book, Caesar, 60, portrays himself as a guilt-ridden obsessive who even at the peak of his success was on an alcoholic slide fueled by two fifths of Scotch a day. Says Caesar now: "Two generations don't even know me or what I've done...
...that is the peak on which Lord Olivier finds himself now, nearly 50 years after he posed for the artist. The first actor to be elevated to the peerage in the 600-year history of the House of Lords, he has so many honors that even he sometimes seems to choke on the incense. At 75 he has decided it is time to blow away some of the smoke and tell his own story. His autobiography, which he aptly titles Confessions of an Actor, Laurence Olivier, came out in Britain in October and will be published in the U.S. next...