Word: peaked
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...Statue of Liberty is open again, just as the Thanksgiving Week vacation surge hits its peak, and thousands of tourists are headed for the awe-inspiring sight of the Grand Canyon. By ending the budget stasis now, President Clinton and GOP leaders have avoided not only the real pain that might be suffered by the needy who are dependent on federal social programs, but the spectacle of a lot of government-run operations growing seedy while federal employees were off duty. West Point cadets, for example, will not earn the sobriquet "The Longhaired Grey Line" after all, now that their...
...goal all through the season was to peak at the Ivies, because that's when it counts," Hart said...
...million World War II veterans enter their years of peak medical need--their median age is 73--the VA may be decreasingly able to serve them. "If you lock us into the 1995 spending levels for the next seven years, you make some assumptions almost as though there's nobody out there to treat," says Jesse Brown, Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs. "A lot of people are behaving as though our veterans are already dead...
...from the deaths of the two victims and somehow turn it toward the disparity between whites and blacks in the U.S. But O.J. Simpson is not by any stretch of the imagination a representative of the African-American people. He did nothing for them when he was at the peak of his career or at any time afterward. There used to be a very effective remedy for those who violated the laws of the community. It was "shunning," or treating the offender as if he were dead. That might be better than a guilty verdict for this particular...
...task is overwhelming: 185 sovereign nations do not always reach consensus. The important point is that the forum of the U.N. exists for nations to air their grievances. While nations zealously guard their own rights and retain authority over the U.N., the U.N. can hardly function with peak efficiency...