Word: peak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gandhi was at the peak of her power, but she was still unable to deal with the huge problems of governing India. The costs of the 1971 war, which had brought millions of refugees pouring into India, helped send the economy into another spin. The badly divided Congress Party was widely accused of graft and incompetence. Mrs. Gandhi's main interest was in claiming the role of a great power. She detonated India's first atom bomb in 1974 and reached out for Soviet aid and weaponry to re-equip India's armed forces...
...health of the housing industry is particularly crucial to a continued economic expansion. Like the prime rate on business loans, the cost of mortgages is starting to ease a bit. The average interest charge on fixed-rated mortgages has fallen to 14.16%, down from a July peak of 14.67%. That decline has encouraged homebuilders to put more hammers and saws to work. Housing starts in September were up 8.9% from their sluggish pace of the month before...
...razzle-dazzle, the mood of the meeting was little more than mildly optimistic. From a peak of $2.9 billion in 1981, sales of business aircraft tumbled to $1.5 billion last year. Manufacturers expect them to edge up to $1.7 billion or more...
...almost anyone in the Louisville audience. Walters knew this, and perhaps it was inevitable that she would try to leave her own distinctive stamp on the proceedings. But she chose to make her pitch at the very beginning of the debate, when viewer attention was (hopefully) at its peak. With straight-faced regret she indicated the three journalists on the panel, and told America there should have been four. Why weren't there, Barbara? Because out of the 112 names submitted by the sponsor of the debate, the League of Women Voters, to the two campaigns, they could agree only...
...game, and its old conquests good only for colorful but dispassionate reminiscing. His servant Gaston, his name seemingly synonymous with the command "service" and too often, invoked with the same sensitivity, knows love only from the Baron's recounts and, as he laments, "from an occasional peak through the keyhole every year...