Word: peak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Contrariness over the trade issue reached a peak on Oct. 25, during the second of two nationally televised debates between the party leaders. In that confrontation, and throughout the 26 remaining days of the campaign, Turner described Mulroney as a man willing to "sell out" Canada and reduce the country to an "economic colony...
...anymore. For many Americans, each summer holiday reaffirms that traveling during peak season is increasingly a flawed experience. Too often it means paying more and seeing less, fighting crowds and missing any sense of a country's way of life. Having sweltered through Athens in August and endured Britain's roads in July, tourists are finally realizing why the first mark of seasoned travelers is the season in which they travel...
...only other bright spot for Harvard was thereturn of Co-Captain Neil Phillips, who was backin uniform after recovering from football season.Although he was clearly not in peak form--shooting2-for-6 from the field--Phillips displayed flashesof the kind of exciting play that earned him aspot on the All-Ivy second team last year...
...side of the pool stood the Harvard team, not yet in peak condition-on purpose. Harvard opted for the conditioning strategy: shave and taper distances later in the season, when Princeton and the Easterns roll around--when the schedule means something...
Quicker than you can say "currency speculation," the U.S. dollar has slumped to the lowest levels since last spring, completely wiping out the effects of a summer rally that had lifted the currency nearly 10% by late August, to a peak of 136 yen. Buoyed in part by a booming U.S. economy, the currency threatened to become strong enough to hinder progress in closing the trade...