Word: peak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Call it one small step for man, one giant leap for Japanese television. Nine weeks after the first of two teams of climbers from Japan, China and Nepal set out from opposite sides of Mount Everest, six determined mountaineers rendezvoused on the world's tallest peak. What made the occasion particularly memorable was that television viewers were able to share in the celebration, courtesy of three intrepid Japanese cameramen who also made the 29,028-ft. climb...
...promised veto could give the Democrats a potent issue in the presidential election campaign because the trade gap, which hit a record $171.2 billion last year, has become the most serious threat to economic prosperity. The monthly trade deficit has declined from a peak of $17.6 billion in October, but recent figures have been going in the wrong direction. A report released last month showing that the deficit jumped from $12.4 billion in January to $13.8 billion in February sent the financial markets into a brief panic. Continued deterioration of the trade balance could lead to a further drop...
...Oman. As the oil czars gathered, the petroleum industry watched and wondered: Was a new, super-OPEC forming? Just the prospect of the meeting had sent the price of West Texas intermediate, the benchmark U.S. crude, rising more than $3.50 per bbl. during the previous two months, to a peak of almost $19 before the gathering. But after conferring for six days last week, the ministers were still struggling to forge an agreement that would prop up prices by throttling back the world's oil output...
...cocktail of energy-rich glucose, water and a blend of salts to nourish the pilot throughout the flight. In addition, Daedalus' team of five pilot-athletes staggered their training schedules, each of them bicycling an average of 450 miles a week so that one of them would be in peak physical form whenever the go-ahead for the flight came...
...languages to convey emotions; both eschewed irony for intensity; both declined in the 1920s -- opera with Puccini's death, silent movies with the coming of sound. So a headlong romantic like Ken Russell will embrace opera on film like a first, lost love. For him, opera is performed at peak volume because the feelings it surveys are big and deep. Matters of lust and death are too important to be spoken; they must be sung, shouted, thundered, wept -- and shown, in all their delirious force. At its vagrant best, Aria reminds viewers of the original arithmetic of cinema: sight + sound...