Word: peake
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beverage, a sip at a time, into his mouth. Meanwhile, Hawking was responding to a question from a student who knelt to read the answer as it slowly took shape on the dim liquid-crystal screen. The conversation shifted to creativity and how mathematicians seem to reach a creative peak in their early 20s. Hawking's computer beeped. "I'm over the hill," he said, to a chorus of laughter...
...complains that critics ranging from passengers to Comedian Jay Leno have observed that the Eskimo looks like Gaddafi, Manson, Abraham Lincoln, Willie Nelson or Johnny Cash. Tired of such comments, Alaska Airlines has announced tentative plans to put the Eskimo on ice and replace him with a stylized mountain peak...
...exchange's reorganized governing committee. Some Hong Kong traders were concerned about how the market would react to Li's arrest. Investors, however, seemed to applaud the government's crackdown. Last week the Hang Seng index rose 6.5%, to 2452.52, though it still stood nearly 40% below the peak it had reached before the crash...
...Riverbank). The Moscow suburb of Brezhnev is once again Cheryomushky Rayon (Cherry Tree District). In Leningrad, Brezhnev Square reverts to the Krasnogvardeiskaya Ploshchad (Red Guards Square). Not since Joseph Stalin's name was wiped from the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) and the country's highest mountain (now Peak of Communism) in the late 1950s has a Soviet leader been so posthumously disgraced. No word yet on whether the nuclear-powered icebreaker, the cosmonaut-training center, the military academy, the power station, the tank division and the assorted farms and factories that still carry the Brezhnev name will undergo...
...Soviet Union. Those who apply to leave risk harassment, loss of jobs and the prospect of years of empty waiting. Although Jewish emigration has grown from 914 in 1986 to about 8,000 this year, it is only a fraction of the 51,322 permitted to emigrate in the peak year of 1979. The State Department estimates that 400,000 Jews, out of a population of 1.8 million, would like to leave. To focus worldwide attention on Soviet human rights, a large Washington demonstration is being planned by a coalition of U.S. Jewish organizations for Sunday, the day before Mikhail...