Word: peake
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Ironically, the club has recently scored best on the floor and reached a peak when freshman Paul Mehlman placed second in the event at the New England Championships two weeks...
...senior from Lake Tahoe points to one of the mountain landscapes on his bedroom walls, a snow-capped peak that towers next to his high school in Colorado and remarks how "disappointed" he was when he saw what the East had to offer. "There aren't really any mountains big enough for a downhill, remarks Klaussen. But this week Klaussen returns to the Rockies for his first collegiate race there in four years, the NCAA's at Park City, Utah...
Gildea, who's been swimming three workouts a day recently in an attempt to overcome a series of painful knee operations, is now approaching the peak condition that made her last year's Ivy mile champ. "It feels great to be coming back," she said happily after the race...
...tons of gold bars or coins are traded daily, three times as much is bought and sold in the form of futures contracts. When interest rates climbed last autumn, speculators borrowed heavily from commodities brokers and banks to buy gold futures, believing that once interest rates peaked they would plunge quickly, as happened last spring. That would have sent gold still higher and hammered the dollar. Interest rates did peak in January, but they are now dropping far more slowly than expected. Many speculators have been unable to finance their loans and are being forced to sell futures contracts...
Western European countries have been buying gas from the Soviet Union since 1974. The flow of gas has been interrupted only during peak winter months because of "technical reasons," according to the Soviets. European experts tend to believe the Soviets on this point and feel that they have little to fear from future cutoffs of the new pipeline. The Soviet Union is considered a far more reliable supplier of natural gas than Algeria, Nigeria, Iran and other potentially large suppliers. Said Count Otto von Lambsdorff, the West German Economics Minister: "I have complete confidence that the Soviets will fulfill their...