Word: peake
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...feet, it seems, can make a difference. Last March, George Wallerstein, an astronomer at the University of Washington, stunned mountaineers and geologists by declaring that the Himalayan mountain known as K-2 might be 36 ft. taller than Mount Everest, long thought to be the world's highest peak. This month, however, an eight-man Italian expedition, led by Geologist Ardito Desio, 90, refuted that claim. Using satellite signals and surveying techniques, they found that Everest towers 29,108 ft. above sea level -- 80 ft. taller than previously believed and 840 ft. higher than...
...almost double the record 12.8% fall on Oct. 28, 1929. Despite a spirited rally on Tuesday and Wednesday, the Dow was still down an unprecedented 295.98 points, or 13.2%, for the week. That immediately eclipsed the record 235.48-point decline the market had suffered the previous week. From its peak of 2722 in August to its Friday close, the average has fallen 28.3%, burning up an estimated $870 billion in equity values. Volume for the week was inconceivably greater than ever before, totaling 2.3 billion shares on the Big Board; the four heaviest trading days in New York exchange history...
Donald Trump could not resist crowing. The flamboyant Manhattan real estate developer confided to journalists last week that he had foreseen the end of the long bull market in August, when the Dow Jones industrial average neared its peak of 2722. Trump, 41, had accordingly cashed in the bulk of his stock holdings, some $500 million worth of shares in Allegis, Holiday Inns, Bally Recreation and other companies. As Black Monday loomed for less fortunate investors, the tycoon claimed he had made a net profit of some $200 million. Now, Trump declared, he intended to "stay in cash...
WHAT CAN one really say about Harvey, that good old adorable 1940s comedy about a rich, eccentric family whose bachelor uncle thinks he sees a giant rabbit? This play is it--the absolute warhorse of warhorses, a cuddly, cute and utterly innocuous script which hit its peak 30 years ago with a Jimmy Stewart movie and has since been relegated to the position of favored stand-by for a hundred thousand suburban high schools...
...look at a phenomenon in a community, it will be shaped something like a bell curve," Postel said. "That weekend just happened to be the peak of the curve," he said...