Word: peak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Braniff will not be nearly as grand as the old one, but it may have a better chance of making money. At its peak, Braniff employed 15,000 workers and flew to 42 cities. Under the Hyatt plan, Braniff will rehire about 2,000 former employees and resume service to 20 cities. The airline will have only 30 planes, compared with 123 previously...
From his office window, George Lucas looks out over a pleasant little valley to a pleasant little mountain, Mount Tamalpais. Small as it is, this friendly peak has an important if unheralded role in his life: it blocks the summer fog that often rolls in from San Francisco, eleven miles to the south, and makes the side on which Lucas lives and works that much sunnier...
...Harry Parker the rewards of coaching come in races like Sunday's. The eight Crimson oarsmen in that boat started as novices in lower boats and worked their way up. On Sunday last they achieved peak form, and they'll have a chance to do it again for the Sexton Cup in three weeks against Yale, which finished a distant fourth in the Sprints...
...contest against the Tigers proved to be the squad's second peak of the season, the first came against Yale, when the Crimson swept doubles, after splitting all its singles matches. The senior Captain Adam Beren was out of the singles lineup...
...West. Barely recuperated from winter storms that pounded Pacific Coast piers and unloaded record snows by the driftful, the region has been drowning in one of the wettest springs ever. Swollen by heavy rain and snow runoff in the mountains, Utah's Great Salt Lake is projected to peak at 4,204 ft. above sea level in June, nearly a foot more than officials estimated only months ago. The culprit: a spate of unseasonably cool, moist weather that has prevented evaporation, which normally acts to counterbalance the effects of the runoff. Damages to property and roadway, now estimated...