Word: peak
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First Investors was one of the first mutuals to buy junk in quantity from Milken. The high-flying paper helped two of the firm's 25 funds (the Fund for Income and the High Yield Fund) grow to more than $2.4 billion in assets. At its peak, First Investors commanded an army of 5,000 sales agents spread throughout 285 offices in 49 states -- most of them inexperienced, ill trained and often crammed like cattle into boiler-room offices. The agents memorized scripted pitches that they parroted to customers, usually over the phone. The firm also uses a pyramid-style...
...only made me pick my appropriately named torture. I had the options of "interval training" (intervals of two weeks, I hoped), "Pike's Peak" (for those who exercise in hiking boots instead of Reeboks), "random" (for my house assignment), "manual control" (for Gov. concentrators), "roller coaster" (the machine does a 360 while you climb), "lunar landing" (so you can space out while exercising) or "steady climb" (for underachievers...
Just as the crackdown was reaching its peak last week, Amnesty International made public another indictment of the army's brutal rule. In a 72-page special report, the London-based human-rights organization accused Burma's junta of "silencing the democratic movement" with systematic terror and torture...
Flanagan said that he would send supervisors to both Quincy and Weld Thursday morning to monitor the water temperature during peak shower times...
That done, Chang looked to the surprising task of facing Semler in the finals--surprising because, after having taken the summer off from tennis, Chang did not expect to return to peak form until next year. It was less than a month ago that he was having trouble keeping the ball in the Beren confines...