Word: peak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week. The Dow finished at 1277.72, up a mere 1.66. In fact, that was only the end result of a heart-stopping, up-and-down week of heavy trading and tumult, of ecstasy and then anxiety. On Tuesday the Dow surged nearly 15 points, to close at a historic peak of 1292.62, breaking the previous record of 1287.20, set on Nov. 29, 1983. No sooner had the shouting stopped, however, than institutional investors, including pension funds, insurance companies and bank trust departments, began to cash in their profits, causing the Dow to give up most of its gains...
...hours they played clear, strong rock, veering now and then toward folk, and once, surprisingly, toward the kind of electronic music that bright young conservatory professors are putting together with computers and tapes. To an outsider it was fine and enjoyable; to the Dead Heads it was a rare peak of brilliance. Most of the audience knew that the wife and baby of Veteran Roadie Steve Parish had been killed two days before in an auto accident, and they assumed that the performance was a special effort, a memorial. But the Dead are always private; no announcement was made...
...binge continued at midweek when the Dow Jones index jumped an additional 15.23 points, to 1274.73. Suddenly the record of 1287.20, set Nov. 29, 1983, seemed within easy reach, and predictions of a new peak were popping up all over Wall Street. At week's end, though, the Dow closed...
Even as new Voyager transmissions were being received at J.P.L., scientists were feverishly interpreting the early results. Computer-enhanced photographs of the moons Titania and Oberon, each about 1,000 miles in diameter, showed that Oberon had a three-mile-high peak and that the surfaces of both moons were pocked with white spots from which streaks of bright material radiated. To Bradford Smith, head of the Voyager imaging team, the spots were evidence that meteorite impacts had pulverized the gray surface, exposed an underlying layer of ice and spewed it out in all directions. The haze covering the Uranian...
...tapestry weaving, which is as old as civilization itself, reached an aesthetic peak during the Renaissance, especially in the manufactory founded by the Parisian dye worker Jean Gobelin. In that era, no European palace was deemed properly palatial without its Gobelins in halls and stairways...