Word: peak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Call me a puppethead after reading the how to peak hip glossary at the end, but this new twist on the be a better and healthier person or else you'll die genre does little for the quest of rooting out the uncool in the world, one of its stated goals. In a mock parody like The Preppy Handbook, one might try to tolerate the section on. "The Dark History of Sunglasses" and the consumer help portions of the book, which offers readers where-to-buy leads, addresses and advice...
...this year, 35 banks have failed, more than twice the post-World War II peak of 16 failures in 1976. William Isaac, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., told the A.B.A. gathering that the number of institutions on his agency's watch list of shaky banks had jumped to some 320, from 220 in January. While asserting that most of the banking system is still strong, both Isaac and C.T. Conover...
...York performances (the orchestra will also perform in Pasadena, Calif.) found both Karajan and the Berlin in peak form. The opening-night An Alpine Symphony put the orchestra's fabled virtuosity at the service of Strauss's last, underrated tone poem for an exhilarating trip up the mountain top. In the four Brahms symphonies, Karajan emphasized the richness of Brahms' sonorities in expansive readings that found room for visceral thrills when the opportunities arose; the high-spirited brass peroration that concludes the Second Symphony is probably still echoing somewhere in Carnegie Hall's rafters, joining...
Much of the referendum companioning will hit a peak the weekend as prop us opting the death penalty question and the hotter the mount major leafleting and canvassing efforts...
...lately of meat-packing fame), for far less than he earned in his first racing season. He proved his talent first at Suffolk, where much of the competition is only a step or two away from the Alpo factory. But "the Boston horse," as he became known around the peak of that first season, continued to win races beyond the Hub. By the time he had won the Flamingo Stakes and the Florida Derby--two key prep races for the Kentucky Derby--he was being touted as the next Triple Crown horse. And not unreasonably so. In the parading...