Word: peake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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University police will begin using the Business School's computer next week to determine high crime areas in the Harvard community so that officers can patrol these areas at peak crime hours, Sgt. Lawrence J. Murphy, the officer in charge of the operation, said yesterday...
After a remarkable reign, Faisal died at a time when his prestige throughout the Arab world was at a peak. In the past, many Arab radicals had savagely attacked him as a reactionary, tyrannical ruler of a feudal desert kingdom. But all that changed after Faisal dramatically imposed the oil embargo in October 1973. The Cairo daily al Gumhouriya, once a vehicle for anti-Faisal propaganda campaigns, observed last week: "The Arab nation can never forget his heroic stand during the October war, or that he launched the oil battle in support of the fighters in Sinai and the Golan...
Even South Viet Nam's hardy and often volatile non-Communist political opposition has lately been relatively quiescent. Several months ago, anti-Thieu activity, led by anti-Communist Roman Catholics, reached such a peak that many were reminded of the devastatingly effective anti-government Buddhist protests of the 1960s. Last month Thieu jailed 19 journalists and closed five opposition newspapers; for the moment, his crackdown seems to have silenced the opposition movement. His government's increasingly hostile treatment of the foreign press brought tragedy last week when the Saigon police ordered Agence France-Presse Correspondent Paul Leandri...
...than 10% in the current quarter. That would be the fifth straight quarterly decline as well as the sharpest contraction for any quarter since World War II. Industrial production in February alone was off 3%, making five successive months of decline. Greenspan, who had previously predicted that unemployment would peak at 8.5%, now said that it would climb higher than that and possibly hit 9% before going down some time this summer. Even so, he held to his earlier conviction that the recession will bottom out just after midyear-or possibly just before...
...Cordero's Derby entry. Reflecting his symbiotic relationship with his client, Matos speaks as if jockey and agent were indivisible. "I rode Cannonade in the Stepping Stone before the Derby," he recalls, "and liked the way he handled himself. I thought Little Current was not at his peak yet." He was right. Little Current did not reach winning form until two weeks later in the Preakness...