Word: peak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...operations has escalated into a virtual civil war. Heavily armed pro- and antigambling factions have battled for control of the main road through the reservation, which straddles the border between upstate New York and Canada's Quebec and Ontario provinces. Last week the fighting reached a new and bloody peak: thousands of shots were exchanged in a three-hour gun battle that left two dead. Hundreds of New York State troopers, who had previously been reluctant to intervene on the largely self-governing reservation, and a force of Canadian police moved in to restore an uneasy calm...
...beat. And that's what I like about heavy metal bands. Besides, they're gorgeous! A lot of adults don't like them because when they're married and settled down, they don't think about having action or talking dirty. But teenagers do because of their sexual peak. If songs have curses in them, they're not going to bother kids. Everyone knows swear words by the third grade. My advice to parents is to let your kids grow up and do what they want to do." What burns Lisette is the idea that her music should be censored...
...Peak performance. To demonstrate that the environment is a common cause, 15 U.S., Soviet and Chinese climbers hope to reach the top of 8,848-meter (29,028-ft.) Mount Everest on Earth Day. Those who get there will place satellite calls to heads of state, then pick up garbage and gear dumped by previous expeditions...
...just released second album debuted in one trade publication at the very top of the charts. Her first single, a rhapsodic rendering of Prince's ballad Nothing Compares 2 U, is also a runaway hit, currently No. 4 on the Billboard Top 100 and threatening to scale the peak. No wonder she can title her album I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got. Easy for her to say. It looks very much like Sinead (say it Shin-aid) O'Connor will have...
Lynch has heard such criticism since the mid-1980s, when Magellan was scoring some of its biggest gains. "It hurt when people kept saying that Magellan had reached its peak, that it was impossible for us to beat the market anymore," Lynch told TIME's Boston bureau chief, Robert Ajemian, last week. "I really wanted to prove them wrong. So I stayed...