Word: peak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unable to leave my Manila hotel room for several days." He returned to Saigon as a TIME correspondent in 1972-73 and again in 1975. Johannesburg Bureau Chief Marsh Clark recalls the special problems of covering the war from 1968 to '70, when U.S. involvement was at its peak. "We tried to report on the myriad social difficulties the war was creating, especially the huge migration of people into the cities," he says. "Just covering the battles did not actually tell much about how the war was really going...
Despite a below peak, hitless performance, the squad coasted into the top of the seventh on the 3-1 lead it had held since the third. The possibility of a loss seemed as remote as the notion that a team ought to get at least one hit if it wants to win a game...
...discovery showed researchers how they could dispense with prerecorded templates. Now they could program their computers to identify the shapes and patterns that Zue had recognized in the spectrograms. That immediately made the machines more versatile. Rather than trying to match every peak and trough in the wave forms of someone's voice, they could search for only those acoustic features that are universal in certain words, no matter who speaks them. Advanced word-recognition systems using this technique are already in the hands of the National Security Agency, the top-secret Government bureau that monitors global communications networks. Eavesdropping...
PCjr's share of the retail personal-computer market slipped from a peak of 17% in December to only 4% in February, an intolerable level for IBM. In addition, the competition promised to get tougher. Atari and Commodore are expected to introduce higher-quality home computers this year priced at less than $1,000. For IBM, it must have seemed like a good time to disinherit Junior...
...located, has reaped record earnings in each of its 30 years. True to form, 1984 revenues rose 23%, to $940 million, while profits of $143 million were up 24% over 1983. The company's stock has risen along with its fortunes, from $18 per share in 1974 to a peak of $174.50 last year, earning Capital Cities a reputation among investors as "the Cadillac of the industry...