Word: peak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...materials such as cotton and coal actually dropped a bit for the third straight month. Interest rates were sliding too: major banks last week cut the prime rate (on loans to their best business customers) by half a point, to 161%. That is five points below the peak last winter...
...strong, very, very, tough." "He's the kind of guy who takes the sport very seriously and tries very hard," notes team captain Adam Dixon. "In a sport in which you can never be sure of what's ahead of you he never assumes that he's reached his peak." If Johnson does poorly, he recognizes it and makes determined efforts to lower his times...
...goal margins. In big games the Crimson have not shown the necessary poise, however, losing twice to Brown earlier in the season after a well-played first half. Sunday's game could prove different. Well-rested after having taken a two-week lay-off, the aquamen are at the peak of their game...
...John D. Spengler, in a paper presented at the symposium, found no correlation between measured nitrogen dioxide levels and lung function. "This is not conclusive, as it was based on a small sample size," Sexton said, adding also that it did not preclude the possibility that short-term, "peak exposures" to the gas might be harmful...
...Malcolm Brinnin fuses six distinct portraits into an intricate work, closer to a fragmented fiction than to a fractured reality. Chosen from among the noted and notable of two overlapping intellectual eras, his subjects resemble characters from a diffuse and impressionistic novel. Brinnin has captured them, not at their peak, but in their moments of ascent or descent, grasping or clutching, and always searching...