Word: peak
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...college campuses. People seeking rides say where they want to go, and drivers with room to spare arrange a place to meet. Craigslist, which requires no membership and charges no fee, fields 20,000 ride-sharing posts in a typical month, a number that swells to 30,000 during peak travel times...
Human-rights campaigners, however, welcome Hollywood's focus on the issue and say it has helped tighten industry oversight even before the film's release. In the run-up to the holiday period--peak season for diamond sales and blockbuster movies--the public spat makes an interesting study of how a big studio movie can threaten a $60 billion-a-year global retail industry, one that has previously thrived on its association with all things Hollywood, and how that business can fight back...
...Public understanding of autism research suffers from two perennial complications: correlational studies and press releases. The report cited in your story is the latest example of both these foibles. The correlational style of argument is as apt to establish that, say, ice cream sales cause homicides, since both peak at the same time of year. The long list of supposed causes of or treatments for autism touted in press releases has given parents false hope or, worse, false guilt. Hasty pronouncements only damage autism science and the public's trust in it. Matthew Belmonte Department of Human Development Cornell University...
...memorable one. Dawson has never run for less than 120 yards against Yale, and padded his rushing stats with 10 catches for 85 yards in last season’s triple-overtime thriller. Taking the field with 4,781 career rushing yards to his name, the 5,000-yard peak is remote, but, if he breaks a couple of long ones, not unattainable.In addition, Harvard has the aerial attack to complement Dawson’s irrepressible running. In Yale’s season-opening loss to San Diego, the Toreros’ mobile quarterback, Josh Johnson, torched the Bulldogs defense...
...other hand, has its watery imagery matched by Newsom’s lulling, swirling harp-play. The 17-minute “Only Skin” invokes Pynchon and Tolkien simultaneously, with its setting impossible to place and Newsom’s word-choice at its evocative peak. “We tramped through the poison oak / heartbroke and inchoate,” she whispers and shrieks at once, in the middle of a song that changes tone, meter, and story repeatedly, and yet remains remarkably cohesive. It may well be the prevalence of nature imagery, and its inversion, that...