Word: peake
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Create more community-based health clinics. The homeless crisis began when overcrowded mental hospitals started to release patients who were not considered dangerous to themselves or others. The number of mental patients in U.S. institutions dropped from a peak of 560,000 to 143,000 today, and an estimated 30% to 40% of the homeless are mentally impaired. The release program was intended to lead to more small facilities, where the poor could receive affordable outpatient care. Yet 70% of the $6 billion spent each year on state-run mental health programs still goes to institutions. A greater proportion must...
...gate is divided into two hinged door sections that swing open from the middle. The vertical bars extend beyond the top of the gate in a series of miniature spires that rise from the outside and peak in the center...
Like all good TV dramas, this one starts with an exciting precredit sequence. The time is early 1979, and the network wars have reached a frenzied peak. Sitcoms like Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley are riding high in the Nielsens. Blockbuster mini-series are vying to reproduce the huge audiences that tuned in for Roots. Star programmer Fred Silverman, the Man with the Golden Gut, is ready to try everything from Gary Coleman to Supertrain in his quest to lift NBC out of the prime-time ratings cellar...
...hottest stock guru in 1986 and '87 because of the bullish predictions in his newsletter The Elliott Wave Theorist ($233 a year). He based his forecasts on a mix of esoteric formulas and offbeat indicators like hemlines: the return of the miniskirt, he said, was a sign of a peak in the market. Prechter issued a warning on Oct. 5, advising his subscribers to sell their stocks. But he did not predict the downturn's severity, which disappointed some followers. "New business has virtually disappeared," Prechter concedes, but he is philosophical: "Going through the valley is something I've done...
...took a look, and put away the dream for another year. "It has been a very long season," he explained. "I am very tired." Not as tired as his ^ competitors, who continue to battle among themselves for the distinction of being second best, a full 2 in. off the peak...