Word: peak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Adams House Master Robert Kiely ended interhouse for lunch earlier this month citing overcrowding. According to Berry Adams, conveniently located near the Yard, sometimes served lunch to more than 600 students during peak hours...
Frank Dalaklis, unit manager for the Leverett dining hall, said that there has been somewhat of an added strain but that the dining hall has continued to function relatively evenly during peak hours...
...council colleague, for successfully pushing a term-limit ballot amendment last fall that has turned Taylor into a lame duck. Many residents, black and white, believe Taylor and her allies have badly misplaced New Orleans' priorities at a time when crime, housing and other ills are at a peak. "The city's falling apart, and they go after one of the few things that are still really working," complained float designer Henri Schindler. Agreed carnival historian Errol Laborde: "We were just getting over the David Duke mess, and this hits. This has turned brother against brother for no good reason...
...they seem to have reached their popularity peak, hovering in a musical purgatory, unable to produce a breakthrough to catapult them into the upper stratosphere of the Hit Heavens. Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" demonstrated that it only takes one smash to accomplish this, but among the long and undistinguished song catalog that this middle-aged outfit drags behind them, such a gem is nowhere to be found...
...great downhill racer, there's no holding back, but AJ Kitt also knows that one secret of success is not to peak too early. So far, the 23-year-old American is right on schedule. Two years ago, he finished fourth in a World Cup downhill, earning a reputation as a comer. This season he bagged a World Cup downhill victory at Val d'Isere, the first world-class win by an American male since Bill Johnson struck Olympic gold in 1984. Kitt was serving notice that he had arrived -- just in time, if all goes according to plan...