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Word: peak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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After hitting a first period peak, the Harvard hockey roller coaster swerved, dipped, plunged and finally lurched to a halt as the erratic icemen dropped a 6-2 decision to Boston College at the Bright Center last night...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Eagles Soar Past Icemen, 6-2 | 1/10/1980 | See Source »

...hostile North Korean Forces which had devastated their country in the early 1950s, were willing to cooperate with military leaders in preventing what they thought of as threats to their security. At the same time, Korea in the 1970s was extraordinarily dynamic growth rate that corresponded to Japan's peak growth rate in the 1960s, bringing the Korean economy by the end of the 1970s up to the level of a major European power. Although disturbed by rising energy costs and inflation by the end of the 1970s, most Koreans had benefited enormously by the unbelievably rapid improvement in standard...

Author: By Ezra F. Vogel, | Title: The East Asian Miracle | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

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