Word: peakedness
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"The U.S. championship is what I peaked for physically this year," Weinstein says. "It decides the teams for the Goodwill Games and the World Team and World [individual] Championships. If you don't do well there, then you can't compete anywhere."
Thinking it through, I caught sight of students dressed to kill as summer recruiting interviews peaked. The successful ones would pull down 100-hour weeks spent I-banking in New York; I dismissed the option as materialistic and very far removed from the goals that motivated my decision to pursue...
But in the second half, Harvard's season-long nemesis, the huge-lead let-down, struck once again. The gap between the Crimson and Tigers peaked at 13 on a Sturdy 3-pointer with 12:41 remaining. Over the next seven minutes, Harvard managed just one basket, a 3-pointer...
Even as Elian fury peaked on both sides, diplomacy between Washington and Havana was getting chummier. Castro stoked Cubans' anger over Elian for domestic benefit and diplomatic leverage, but he was quietly acting more neighborly. When Cuban immigrants held at a Louisiana prison took hostages just before Christmas, Castro agreed...
1996 Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1,476 ft.). Peaked like Angkor Wat, the world's tallest building attests to the ambitions of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.