Word: peak
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...chase after the biggest prize ever offered in the U.S. The award had swollen to epic size because no winner had been declared in seven successive plays of New York's Lotto 48 game. As the jackpot climbed first to $23 million, then $33.5 million and finally to its peak, serpentine lines of ticket buyers formed all over the state, each person shelling out $1 for each chance to choose two sets of six numbers. In Manhattan the queues were so long and contained such a variety of people that an unaware visitor might have assumed...
Robins' shareholders will not get off lightly. The firm's stock has dropped to 8 1/4 from a 1983 peak of 29 3/8. Since April, Robins has paid no dividends. Conceivably, the stockholders might have to give up a portion of their shares to a settlement fund, as in the Manville plan...
...year was 1732; the paper, called the Philadelphia Zeitung, was aimed at the city's burgeoning German population. As the decades rolled by, the growth and variety of the immigrant press mirrored the flow of the immigrants themselves. By the early 1900s, when the boatloads of newcomers reached their peak, some 1,300 foreign- language newspapers and magazines were being published in the U.S. New York City alone boasted a cacophony of 32 dailies, including ten in German, five in Yiddish, two in Bohemian and one each in Croatian, Slovakian and Slovenian...
...research program last week. Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, it turned out, had given the astronauts the wrong numbers to feed into Discovery's computerized guidance system. Rather than pointing down at a 9,994-ft. mountain, the shuttle turned upward, searching for a nonexistent peak 9,994 nautical miles high...
Almost out of the blue, toxic shock syndrome appeared in the U.S. in the late 1970s, spreading fear among women and baffling scientists. The disease, which reached its peak in 1980, when 890 cases were reported, occurred primarily in menstruating women, though men and children could also be affected. Toxic shock could strike with appalling speed, progressing in a matter of hours from fever and dizziness to a strange, sunburn-like rash and a drop in blood pressure so severe that the victim might go into shock. For about 4% of patients, TSS proved fatal. Scientists quickly linked the disease...