Word: peake
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both ways. He is both perfect model and one of the guys. He is the leader of the group, but also a man apart, emotionally cryptic. He walks a narrower road than his buddies; we see him gracefully climb a mountain above their heads and, with snowcapped peak behind him, a male choir singing, and rain clouds swirling, stalk a buck and drop it with one shot. Then they're back in the bar listening to Chopin, his Teutonic supremacy affirmed. He relaxes with the guys, but he's never out of control. The scout motto of "Be Prepared...
From head to toe, every square inch of Jodie is what attracts me. She reached her peak when she was twelve and then she reached a second peak following March 30, '81. Jodie's got the look I crave. What else can I say? It drives me crazy just looking at some of her photographs. Her voice and smile put stars in my eyes and send shivers everywhere. I only hope Yale doesn't destroy Jodie. Four years at that place is enough to ravage anyone. I tried to rescue her once, and it looks like...
That was like screaming "fire!" in a burning building. Investors have been nervous for months, as they watched Wall Street's Dow Jones industrial average fall about 200 points from its peak of 1024.05 on April 27 this year. Moneymen have grown more and more skeptical of the Reagan Administration's supply-side economic policies and have begun fearing that they might lead to a synchronized global slump. Meanwhile, high interest rates in the U.S. have forced up the cost of money in other countries and raised even more concerns about future economic growth. Stocks in London...
Using telescopes on Kitt Peak and Mount Hopkins in Arizona and Mount Palomar in California, they photographed patches of the night sky and got two-dimensional pictures showing the distribution of matter in a sector of space. To add the perspective of depth they used an astronomical yardstick called the red shift, a measure of how far an object has traveled based on how sharply its light is displaced toward the red end of the spectrum...
They knew that if they looked at a wide enough stretch of sky, the haphazard distribution of heavenly bodies would even out into a vast and more or less regular pattern. "Our idea of a small distance is 1 million light-years," explains Astronomer Paul Schechter of Kitt Peak. "At that distance it looks like a very lumpy universe. But as you step back, the universe begins to look very smooth...