Word: peake
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vowed to take a "bazooka" to the wall dividing "church" and "state"--the editorial operations and the business side. While journalists quaked, business types argued that it was a needed dose of cold realism for a paper whose profits had dropped and daily circulation had slipped from a peak of 1.24 million in 1991 to 1.1 million. Since Willes gave up the publisher's job to become chairman of Times Mirror Co. earlier this year, circulation remains stalled, but operating profits grew by double digits in the third quarter. While admitting a mistake on the Staples relationship, Willes backed Downing...
...season evolves, freshmen start to feel more comfortable and around Christmas time, nothing is new to them anymore," Mazzoleni said. "Their games start to peak at that time. I would expect that with this group...
...mountain, called the Troll Castle, is an unearthly fin of weathered granite that pokes a vertical mile from its icebound surroundings. Only a handful of people knew, or cared, that it existed; fewer still had actually laid eyes on the peak. Alex, Conrad and I were the first who had gone to the trouble to climb it, and the view from the top was ample reward. Countless other rock towers, equally strange and beautiful, rise from the ice in all directions, resembling gargantuan sailboats plying a chalk-white...
...reasonable structure, but working without dialogue is daunting, a real challenge. It was frightening and exciting at the same time. You don't know if you can come up with the goods, but you have to come up with the goods. It galvanizes you to be at your peak...
...decided that I would make my way home as well. I stepped back out onto the deserted main street behind the transfer station and headed back towards the highway. The air was crisp and the sky was clear blue. Gazing off into the distance I noticed the gold peak of the Capital building sparkling like a beacon for my journey back to my red- bricked home...