Word: peak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...piece was a "tour de force." Called "Precipice," it was choreographed by Alvin Ailcy, with music by Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays. The dance was inspired by the lives of certain stars of pop music, especially Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison, who were driven to self-destruction at the peak of escalating careers, described in the program as "a ballet about loneliness where a hero finds himself at the edge of a precipice...
Although American products ranging from corn to computers are now being sold in China, that country's vast market potential remains barely tapped. Total trade between the U.S. and China dipped to $4.4 billion last year, down 20% from the $5.5 billion peak reached in 1981. By contrast, American transactions with Taiwan, which is only one fifty-fourth as populous, came to $15.8 billion...
...Finance Chairman Timothy Finchem insists that will be enough to stage an effective drive through the late primaries and caucuses, but in Mondale's words, his campaign is "no longer the Cadillac operation." The paid staff operating out of Mondale's Washington headquarters was slashed from a peak of 175 before last week to about 100, and is supposed to be reduced further...
...much as 33% higher than those found in teetotalers." On a more sober note, U.C.S.F.'s Dr. Richard Havel warns: "Anyone who recommends raising HDL by drinking is playing with fire." Stress too has a detrimental effect. Studies have shown that the cholesterol levels of medical students peak at exam time, while accountants hit their high point around April...
...Piedmont woodlands shows that in the past ten years the growth rate of loblolly pine, a coniferous evergreen, has been 25% less than expected. Botanist Vogelmann's 20-year study of Camels Hump has shown a rapid decline in nine species of trees on the 4,083-ft. peak. The biomass (the combined weight of tree trunk, branches and foliage) has dropped sharply for several kinds of trees: 25% for sugar maples and beech and 34% for white birch. Red spruce has been the hardest hit, with a biomass decline...