Word: peak
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Operating on the common wisdom that pro-choice groups should "know thine enemy," Boston journalist Connie Paige has written The right to Lifers, an exhaustive and occasionally exhausting account of the anti-abortion movement, Paige describes the movement at its peak, a blatant, sensationalistic drive for power. For example, "Stop the Baby killers" was a political front organization to channel money to pro-life congressional candidates in 1980. Asked about the group's name, an organizer stated, "Frankly, that was brutal, But we had to get attention or we would have lost our money...
...chipmakers are looking ahead to production of a 32-bit microprocessor, which is expected to have its peak sales in about five years and has twice the computational power of the 16-bit chip that is the current industry pacesetter. Western Electric, Hewlett-Packard and NCR Corp. have already unveiled 32-bit chips in hopes of passing Intel and Motorola in the microprocessor race...
...executive's most important task is to spur subordinates to peak performance. Grove emphasizes reducing what he calls an employee's CUA factor, for complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity, to improve teamwork and increase productivity. When the CUA factor is unavoidably high, as when an outside executive is hired to run a troubled division, Grove says, the best advice is to cross your fingers and hope for the best...
...vice president with Chase Manhattan: "Since we couldn't offer market value on savings, we needed a branch on almost every corner to attract business." The total number of branches of banks in the U.S. increased from 21,880 in 1970 to 43,995 in 1981, the peak year...
...solar system may be the most important finding so far made by IRAS, a joint effort of the U.S., Britain and The Netherlands that was launched last January. When Astronomers H.H. Aumann of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the project for NASA, and Fred Gillett of Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona aimed the instrument at Vega, they detected an unexpectedly strong flood of infrared radiation, or heat. (IRAS is the first orbital telescope that operates in the infrared frequency range, taking the temperature of the various components of the universe...