Word: peak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Even at its ratings peak, Star Trek ranks No. 52, behind such shows as Mr. Terrific and Iron Horse...
With the Republicans back in power, the Pentagon seems to be wasting no time in playing to a willing audience. Last week it was announced that three of the Army's 12 divisions were far below their peak readiness levels. That prompted Representative Floyd Spence, the South Carolina Republican in line to be chairman of the Armed Services Committee, to charge that "U.S. military units are caught in the early stages of a downward readiness spiral that shows no prospect of easing in the foreseeable future...
When anti-Communist hysteria reached its peak under McCarthy's one-man Senate committee, Griswold appeared on Edward R. Murrow's well-known television program "See It Now" and denounced the "corruptive investigating practices of headline-seeking Congressional committees...
...will be looking to peak in two weeks against Western Ontario," Ben Shachar said. "It is a very big match...
Like so many talented young taiwanese, Yuan T. Lee came to the U.S. to study, and then to stay. He earned a Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. He climbed the academic ladder. Eventually, he won a Nobel Prize. Then earlier this year, at the peak of his career, the 57-year- old chemist made a sweeping U-turn and headed back home to run Taiwan's prestigious Academia Sinica, a burgeoning collection of 21 research institutes...