Word: peak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...World Cup sportscasters snicker when they suggest a tiring player did not have "enough days off," here's why: two researchers in Israel have studied 36 male Israeli football players and have established the optimum period of sexual abstinence for peak athletic performance. Complicating life for coaches, athletes and their partners, the interlude varies with a player's position on the field. Forwards, who expend extra energy and aggression, should refrain from sexual activity for six to eight days before a game. Defenders and goalies, who require less physical energy on the playing field, need only curtail bedroom sports three...
...jacked-up charges have indeed helped banks rebound from the late 1980s and early 1990s, when sour real estate loans severely depressed industry earnings. Bank profits reached a record $43.4 billion last year, easily topping the previous peak of $32.1 billion in 1992, at least in part because of banks' growing reliance on service charges for income. Fees rose from just under 25% of banking income in 1984 to nearly one-third in 1992, according to the Consumer Federation of America. On top of that, lenders have enriched themselves by keeping a large spread between the cost they pay depositors...
While the Heptagonals were certainly a high point for the team, the indubitable peak of the season was an October 15 triangular with Princeton and Yale...
...team won, 21-16, and afterwards gave an enthusiastic press conference. A number of players were ebullient, but not as much so as cornerback Jae Ellis. Asked about the future, he said: "It's only going to get better. We're improving every day, and should peak at The Game...
Oddly, just as he was reaching a peak of power, Rostenkowski ran afoul of an investigation that started with postage stamps. One charge against him is that he took $21,000 from the House post office over two years by trading expense vouchers for cash instead of stamps, or for stamps later exchanged for cash. The investigation broadened to include accusations that Rostenkowski used campaign funds to rent a vacant office in a building he owned, put "ghost" employees on his payroll, and acquired ownership of cars he supposedly rented with expense money...