Word: peake
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sign of spring's arrival when street musicians emerge to fill the Square. Tourists and students alike pause as they rush down Mass Ave and Brattle Street to catch a melodious moment and savor the long-awaited warm weather and atmosphere. At the peak of the season, nearly every block in the Square, from CVS to HMV to ABP, features a street musician of some sort...
...afternoon), and in the morning or around lunchtime those red and white buses can get pretty crowded. But the shuttle service, ever sensitive to student suggestion, has improved steadily over the past three years, to the point that there are now two shuttles on the hour, at peak hours, from the Quad to the Yard (a matter of three minutes' driving...
...barber shop to the floor of conference rooms: A staggeringly high percentage of the clientele are white men over thirty-five--80 percent is a very conservative estimate. And sure enough, without my prodding, Ms. Simpson acknowledges the imbalance. She reminds me that I've come after the peak lunch hour, and so those still in the club are mainly retirees, a group which is inevitably going to be dominated by Harvard's old guard...
...local news show there. With curly red hair, round glasses and slightly nasal voice, he has a style that is less empathic than Phil Donahue's and less excitable than Geraldo Rivera's. He's the intelligent, slightly smarmy observer of the antics around him. This is the peak of his career, but that doesn't mean he's getting as rich as Winfrey. Major advertisers like Procter & Gamble shun his show, which can charge only about a third of what Oprah does...
...drifted in. More than 200 particles per cu m in Rochester, twice the normal high for early spring. In Mission Viejo the count was 171, and the olive trees hadn't even bloomed. "I had seven emergency patients in one day," says Wynn. "That's worse than at the peak of ragweed season...