Word: peake
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boutique on the ground floor of the two-story building housing The Associated Press bureau in San Juan, young looters defied winds hitting 100 m.p.h. at the peak of the storm and carried out armloads of clothing...
...cattle ranchers engage in their annual rite of destruction: clearing land for crops and livestock by burning the rain forests of the Amazon. Unusually heavy rains have slowed down the burning this year, but the dry season could come at any time, and then the fires will reach a peak. Last year the smoke grew so thick that Porto Velho, the capital of the state of Rondonia, was forced to close its airport for days at a time. An estimated 12,350 sq. mi. of Brazilian rain forest -- an area larger than Belgium -- was reduced to ashes. Anticipating another conflagration...
...faculty began to gear up for an impending crunch in professors, predicted to reach a peak by the year 2000. Graduate school officials launched an effort to reevaluate the scope and timetable of graduate education; a broad-ranging survey of College life was used to start planning for the next generation of undergraduates...
...ebbing. During the same month, retail sales rose 0.9%, a surge that reassured investors that the economy has not stagnated. Before closing at 2683.99 for the week, the closely watched index briefly topped the all-time record of 2722.42 it set on Aug. 25, 1987. That was the heady peak from which the Dow began its steepest slide in history, culminating in the 508-point crash...
Some analysts are encouraged that investors have been going back into the market slowly and cautiously, in comparison with the mob scene in mid-1987, which made everyone skittish and panic-prone. That is not the mood this time around -- at least, not yet -- and markets rarely hit their peak until all types of stocks are overbought, professionals become exuberant, and even small investors are snapping up stocks with abandon. Peter Lynch, manager of Fidelity's $11.5 billion Magellan mutual fund, recalls that "in the summer of 1987, torrents of cash were coming at us out of money-market funds...