Word: peak
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...step. My legs were moving at top speed now. I came closer and closer to the takeoff board. At the last moment I shortened my stride and hit the board with a pounding right foot. I felt my body rise in the air, and I scissors-kicked at the peak of it, flying 15, then 20, then 25 ft. through the air?straining closer and closer to the towel. And then I landed?past...
...peak of his powers or over the hill? Japanese Gymnast Koji Gushiken, 27, competes in a sport increasingly dominated by younger athletes. Yet the Osaka native began training four Olympiads ago. As a sixth grader viewing TV coverage of the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, he saw his countryman Sawao Kato win the gold medal in gymnastics and thought, "I have to do something like that." He took up gymnastics immediately, but his progress was slowed by two successive and serious injuries: a torn ligament in his left leg and a severed Achilles tendon. His appearance in international meets...
...three-day closed-door meeting held at FAA headquarters in Washington last week, a 40-member panel of Government experts and airline officials groped for a plan that would ease congestion at peak periods. Observes TWA Vice President Jerry Cosley: "Our scheduling is realistic in economic terms, but unrealistic in terms of the available infrastructure." Airline executives warned that carriers will not voluntarily risk losing passengers by scheduling more flights at unpopular times. Still, in response to FAA requests, the panel recommended that the airlines seek to spread out their peak-hour schedules. Also proposed were changes in airborne routings...
...dollar in years. Travelers in French restaurants, British department stores and Italian antique shops happily found that their dollars bought a lot of the good life. Despite yearlong predictions that the U.S. currency would fall in value, it was flying higher than ever. The dollar reached a ten-year peak against the West German mark and set records against French, British and Canadian currencies...
...about 7% by next year. But what they cautiously predicted has already come to pass. Last week the Labor Department announced that civilian unemployment fell from 7.5% in May to 7.1% in June, its lowest level in more than four years. Since November 1982, when unemployment hit a postwar peak of 10.7%, the brisk economic recovery has created at least 6.5 million jobs. A record 105.7 million Americans are working. One of the best gains in June was for black workers, whose jobless rate dipped to 15% from 15.8%. For black teenagers, the rate fell to 34% from 44%. Among...