Word: peak
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...recycling process has been pushed to peak capacity by a profusion of cable channels searching for low-cost programming to fill their schedules. Nick at Nite woos baby boomers each evening with campy sitcoms like The Donna Reed Show and Get Smart. The Family Channel has cornered the market in old westerns (Wagon Train, The Virginian), while the Arts & Entertainment Network, originally conceived as a haven for fine-arts programming, now runs oldies , like The Avengers and Mrs. Columbo. Ted Turner's cable operation may attract a lot of attention with MGM movie blockbusters and environmental specials, but its most...
...epidemic has hit the U.S. in three waves. The first occurred among homosexual men and is now leveling off. The second swept through pockets of IV-drug users, especially in certain East Coast cities, and has yet to reach its peak. The third wave is just taking off among heterosexual men and women who have had sexual contact with one or more of the high-risk groups. The question now is how far -- and how fast -- it will travel into the rest of the population...
Miyazawa's talk on trade remains blunt. The U.S. deficit with Japan has declined from a peak of $57 billion in 1987 to $41.1 billion in 1990, and Miyazawa credits both nations with engineering the impressive 28% drop. But he says that shrinking the gap further will be difficult because the U.S. economy has become overly dependent on Japanese imports. "The U.S. could buy less from Japan and more from the European Community," he says, "and American industry should step up its efforts to be more competitive...
...just maybe, a Soviet system whose economy is currently shrinking at the rate of 10% a year might have collapsed even without the help of an extra push from America, remember that the push was enormously costly to our side as well. Although defense spending is down from its peak and heading lower, the U.S. will be paying off the bills run up in the early 1980s for decades to come. If those weapons made the difference, it was money well spent. But maybe we were merely victims of our own "inordinate fear...
...Captain Robin Johnston and forwards Jen Minkus and Laurie Uustal will have to be in peak form in order for the Crimson to triumph...