Word: peak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...public outrage about the city's record crime spree seemed to crystallize last week, and officials scrambled to respond with calls for more police. New York's Governor Mario Cuomo urged the city to hire 5,000 more officers immediately, returning the force close to the peak strength of 32,000 that it wielded in the early 1970s. "The time for exquisite analysis has passed," said Cuomo. "You have to produce the police...
...nomination process had reached a peak. Dad was to become the nominee of the G.O.P. in August 1988, and that obviously raises the profile of Neil Bush. At the same time the regulators, who had been scrupulous in their scrutiny, zealous really, signed an operating agreement with the bank. For the playing field to be absolutely level, I thought it was important for me to be off the board. I didn't want the regulators to feel my presence on the board would have any kind of impact on their progress going forward...
...foreign sales of products as varied as minivans, jetliners and health-care products in the first four months of 1990 climbed 8.9% above the figure for the same period last year. The strong performance offset a 4.8% rise in imports and helped cut the U.S. trade deficit from its peak of $152 billion in 1987 to a current annual rate of $92.2 billion...
...generation, those 48 million young Americans ages 18 through 29 who fall between the famous baby boomers and the boomlet of children the baby boomers are producing. Since today's young adults were born during a period when the U.S. birthrate decreased to half the level of its postwar peak, in the wake of the great baby boom, they are sometimes called the baby busters. By whatever name, so far they are an unsung generation, hardly recognized as a social force or even noticed much at all. "I envision ourselves as a lurking generation, waiting in the shadows, quietly figuring...
...once dominant American oil companies are now being challenged on their home turf. For almost three decades after World War II, the great international oil companies based in the U.S. and Europe controlled the supply of the world economy's lifeblood. At the peak of their clout in the 1960s, the renowned Seven Sisters -- British Petroleum, Gulf, Esso (now Exxon), Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, Standard Oil of California (now Chevron) and Texaco -- ruled with unquestioned authority. They discovered crude oil in the Middle East and Asia, shipped it to the developed world in their own tankers, processed it in their...