Word: peak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Just because the hardest match of the season is over doesn't mean that the season is over," he said. "Our training now is geared to peak in three weeks for national championship weekend...
...Dearest Mary," she writes in 1964, "the chief vice of every egalitarian society is Envy ... This constant comparing is really the quintessence of vulgarity." This fact does not stop the two pen pals from making comparisons. Yet the assessments share an ideal of high-mindedness, of scaling some moral peak that towers over fallible theories and suspect ideologies. Parts of letters read like encounters in The Magic Mountain and offer clues to the thematic overload in McCarthy's last novels. Happily, most of the exchanges have the vitality and cutting edge of her earlier fiction...
...Peak-performance" seminars, at which participants walk barefoot over hot coals after learning "neuro-linguistic programming"; infomercials featuring Fran Tarkenton and Martin Sheen...
...drug in question is known as DHEA, a hormone secreted by the adrenal glands and also found in the bloodstream in another form, called DHEAS. The hormone first appears in humans around age seven, and its level increases until it peaks at age 25. It then begins to fall off and by age 70 is at only about 10% of its peak level. But does this suggest that replenishing DHEA in the elderly will ease some disorders of aging...
...Surgeon General's campaign against cigarettes also seems to have contributed to the bulging of America. Millions of people have given up smoking, driving annual per capita cigarette consumption by adults from its peak of 4,345 in 1963 to 2,493 last year, according to the American Health Foundation. And when people quit smoking, they usually gain weight -- 4 to 6 lbs. on average. But health officials are quick to point out that while those extra pounds may harm your health, cigarettes are even more damaging. Most doctors advise patients that a bit of additional weight is a small...