Word: peak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the number of dues-paying members is down 25 per cent from last year's peak of 120. Chang said he expects membership to rise in the next few weeks as some of the 300 people who signed up as "interested" join the club...
...behind this cheerful facade lurks a series of woes and frustrations that daily plague the Harvard operators. The first is what one student calls "the read-War-and-Peace-and-play-a-few-games-of-Monopoly-while-you-wait syndrome." During the office's peak hours, it is not uncommon for the operators to receive more calls then they can handle at once, in which case they simply answer the calls in order. The worst crunch comes between noon and two in the afternoon, when the operators take their lunch hours, and on weekends, when the staff is reduced from...
...Analyst Arvid Jouppi of Rooney, Pace Inc. says that it will be a battle of "demo graphics and rust vs. interest and inflation." There are plenty of potential buyers among the large group of consumers born just after World War II, who are now reach ing their peak buying years...
...brutal re-emergence of the Red Army Faction shook West German authorities out of the complacent belief that the nation's leftist terrorism had largely been brought under control. From a peak of 150 hard-core members four years ago, the Red Army Faction has dwindled to about 30 as a result of arrests, deaths in clashes with police and desertions from the cause. Despite their limited numbers, say West German officials, the terrorists want to exploit the wave of protest against the NATO decision to deploy U.S. medium-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe...
...weeks earlier, in marked contrast, Yale President A. Bartlett Giamatti welcomed his new students with a speech denouncing the Moral Majority as a threat to pluralism. Though his target was safe--it is easy to blast Jerry Falwell six months after his peak--the press coverage of Giamatti's address was a reminder of the power of the name of Yale, and presumably, therefore, the name of Harvard. It was refreshing for once to see the power of that name put to such use, but it was even more refreshing to see the president of a prestigious university speaking...