Word: peak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...usual, the awful sounds of battle shrieked through Beirut last week, but this time the fighting reached its bloodiest peak since last summer. Day and night, the clatter of machine-gun fire and the thump of shells could be heard not just in the city but throughout a 30-mile crescent stretching from Jounieh in the north to the mountain district of Kharroub. In the suburbs of Beirut, the Lebanese Army clashed with Shi'ite militiamen. In the hills east of the city, government soldiers fought forces loyal to Druze Leader Walid Jumblatt. At the southern...
...often poorly supervised. The result of this laxness is work that can best be described as shoddy. Some of the earthquake supports for California's Diablo Canyon plant were installed backward, as was the reactor vessel at the San Onofre plant near San Diego. Reactor supports at Comanche Peak in Texas were installed 45° out of position. Pipes inside and outside the reactor building at Shoreham on Long Island, N.Y., failed to meet properly and had to be connected with elbow joints. One reason the nuclear industry has been so prone to glitches is that it plunged into building atomic...
...peak year of 1978, 900,000 vans were sold. But rising gasoline prices and the recession eroded the demand for these customized, fantasies-on-wheels wagons. By 1981, sales of vans had dropped to 342,000. Early customer surveys indicate that a whole new class of car buyers is now dis covering vans. Most are former owners of sedans or station wagons, and only 3% previously had vans. Says Maryann Kel ler, a portfolio manager and auto-industry analyst with Vilas-Fischer Associates in New York City: "This is a whole new concept to foist on suburbia...
...home of Lechmere's Point, where the British landed to begin the march to Lexington and Concord, parts of East Cambridge have become industrial wastelands, leading one city official to compare the area to "an underutilized warehouse." After an industrial peak in the early 1900s, many large manufacturers left East Cambridge, taking jobs and other residents with them...
...lost more than $3 billion between 1978 and 1982 and has slurped up $4.6 billion of government handouts since 1975. Things are now looking brighter, since BL has just finished its best year in a decade. Industry experts estimate that the company will have cut its losses from a peak of $803 million in 1980 to $77 million for the first half...