Word: peake
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Department estimates offshore oil reserves at only 12.2 billion bbl. of crude, or 55% less than earlier predictions, and 90.5 trillion cu. ft. of gas, down 44%. If the study proves accurate, by the 1990s the U.S. may have to increase oil imports to as much as the 1977 peak of about 9 million bbl. a day, vs. 3 million bbl. today...
...CSOC. To add to all this activity orbiting around CSOC, the Pentagon has selected Colorado Springs as the home of the U.S. Space Command, which will direct all defense-oriented space activities, including those at CSOC. This would make the once sleepy town at the base of Pikes Peak the military space capital...
Founded after the Civil War by a Union general as a refined refuge for the well-heeled, Colorado Springs (pop. 259,000) has long enticed tourists with attractions like Pikes Peak Highway and the elegant Broadmoor Hotel. But in more recent years it has become a magnet for military installations. To the east of the city is Peterson Air Force Base; to the north is the U.S. Air Force Academy; to the south is the Army's Fort Carson; and buried deep in Cheyenne Mountain to the southwest, shielded behind 25-ton doors, is the North American Aerospace Defense Command...
...Finally we must emphasize the Consul-General's coolness under fire. We had advance warning of the demonstration at Lowell House and had arranged for an alternate site, but Mr. Hoppenstein insisted on facing the demonstrators. He continued in peak and answer questions from students in the ICK up until the last minute. Upon using the vestibule. Mr. Hoppenstein also paused in straighten his he before proceeding to the airport...
...latest merger wave has been the largest in U.S. history when measured in dollars. Inflation-adjusted figures in the Council of Economic Advisers' current annual report put the value of corporate combinations at $133 billion in 1984, vs. $112 billion in 1968, the previous peak year. While there were nearly twice as many mergers in 1968, the sizes of the transactions were much smaller...