Word: peake
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...high value of the dollar makes imports less costly, American consumers are favoring foreign products over those made at home. Figures released last week revealed that the current account, which measures trade in goods and services, showed a record deficit of $101.6 billion last year, topping the previous peak of $41.6 billion in 1983. Foreigners have helped finance the trade deficit by investing heavily in the U.S. Because the inflow of foreign money far exceeds American investments abroad, the U.S. may have become a debtor nation in the first quarter of 1985 for the first time since World...
Soviet agriculture is a continuing saga of failure. Last year's grain harvest was an estimated 170 million tons, down from 195 million in 1983 and well below the 1978 peak of 237 million. To offset agricultural shortages, the Soviet Union depends on imports. Moscow is expected to buy up to 52 million tons of grain, including at least 20 million from the U.S., in the period from July 1984 through June 1985, an increase of 52% over the previous year. Says Olin Robison, president of Middlebury College in Vermont and a Soviet expert: "A very sad fact about Soviet...
Adam Barr is best when he is ordinary Avan imperial Russian minister, he seems stiffer that even the role would call for. But as the straight man to cruel fate, he excels. He reaches his peak as a pathetic gouty banker descending into madness under the onslaught of an aggressive female...
...fact that the Lions would go on to a second-place Ivy finish, because the slide had already begun. Emotion could do only so much, and it had helped to carry the Crimson past insignificant early-season opponents like Manhattan, Holy Cross, and even lowly Merrimack. The peak came too early to help when it really mattered...
...climbed 1.7% in January, its sharpest advance in 18 months. That report electrified the stock market, where investors went on a buying binge. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped nearly 26 points during the day, to 1309.96, before falling back to a record close of 1299.36, which topped the peak...