Word: peaked
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...segments, is nearing final assembly -- a 10-month process was completed last week. Four years from now it will be joined by the Keck II, an equally monstrous twin. By then, the European Southern Observatory hopes to have positioned the first of four 8.2-m telescopes atop a high peak in the Chilean Andes. Japanese astronomers and other groups around the world will be constructing telescopes of similar size and daring before the end of the century...
...clear rebuff to Clinton, the former Massachusetts Senator received 20% of the vote.) Still, there are contrary signs that suggest that 1992 will be far from a normal political campaign. A Harris poll at the end of last year found that voter alienation was at a 25- year peak. Turnout in primaries is even lower than usual, and much of the stay-at-home electorate may be too bitter to bother to vote in November. The recession is seen as a talisman of America's long-term economic decline, rather than just as a cyclical downturn. The House-bank scandal...
...upshot: a tally of international terrorist incidents compiled by the State Department fell from a peak of 864 in 1988 to 457 in 1990, the lowest since 1977. The count rose to 557 in 1991, but about half of those occurred during the Persian Gulf war and caused minor damage and few casualties -- and even so, the count was relatively low by the standards...
...pushing up interest rates. The Ministry of Finance published regulations to discourage real estate speculation. The bubble began to deflate. And the Tokyo Stock Exchange went into a swoon which is yet to end. Currently flirting with the 20,000 level, the Nikkei average is down 47% from its peak. Real estates prices fell as much as 30% in Tokyo and 40% in Osaka...
...meet the need for condoms, population bureaucrats are pressing the nation's latex industry to stretch output quickly by 100 million, to a peak of 1.5 billion a year. Check off one more victory for the forces of supply and demand over central planning...