Word: peake
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elsewhere--may portend a trend. "There's a cycle to these things not unlike the cycle of general education," says Phyllis C. Keller, associate dean for academic planning. "The last round of revisions ... was in the mid to late 60s, when the size of the graduate programs reached their peak" and they could afford to specialize, Keller adds...
...strategists been more confident of reviving what Kansas Senator Robert Dole called "an old and honored tradition, the two-term presidency." Not since Dwight Eisenhower's second campaign for the White House in 1956 could the Republicans offer a more salable candidate. Polls are showing Reagan at the peak of his popularity with American voters; they are also documenting signs of new national feelings of patriotism and optimism that could only benefit an incumbent, particularly one so adept at exploiting that mood-a mood Reagan gets much credit for fostering...
...computers have also been suffering from slower than expected sales, ruinous competition and an excess of copycat products. Among the victims are two industry giants. VisiCorp, marketer of VisiCalc, a pioneering business program, has shelved plans to create its own software, cut its work force to 72 from a peak of 250 and sold the licensing rights for its troubled VisiOn package to Control Data. Another former pacesetter, Digital Research, has backed away from its ambitious move into the retail market and is focusing again on programs that are built into computers...
...consequences of this sportive invasion are both visible and dispiriting. The main route up the Matterhorn has been worn as smooth as a dance floor by climbers and is currently closed to all but advanced mountaineers. Austria's Grossglockner, a formidable peak once noted for its splendid isolation, is attacked daily by up to 200 excursionists, most of them aided by ropes and guides. So many would-be conquerors cluster around the trail that the Austrian government has built wooden platforms on many peaks to increase standing space. At Königssee in southern West Germany, 800,000 tourists...
Actually, unlike others who share this absurd Walter Mitty daydream, I had done something about it. A month before the Games I had gone to the Olympic Training Center under the shadow of Pikes Peak in Colorado Springs to be tested in the Sports Physiology laboratories there to see if by chance there was a particular Olympic event for which I was a perfect physical specimen to suit...