Word: peakedness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After the production of PCBs peaked in 1970, Congress banned PCB manufacture in 1976 after the chemical’s toxicity emerged as an issue of concern.
Enrollment in Catholic schools peaked in the 1960s, when more than 5 million students attended nearly 13,500 parochial schools. Since then, both enrollment and the number of schools have dropped by more than half. Why? For starters, the number of priests, nuns and brothers able to teach for free...
But early in 2007, something strange happened: Wikipedia's growth line flattened. People suddenly became reluctant to create new articles or fix errors or add their kernels of wisdom to existing pages. "When we first noticed it, we thought it was a blip," says Ed Chi, a computer scientist at...
Let's start with the porn shop. Lion's Den is an Ohio-based chain of adult toy stores often found at tired freeway interchanges in empty parts of the country. In 2003, one of them arrived in the fabled cowboy town of Abilene. A pornucopia of videos, sheer little...
Sort of like the '60s and '70s, when the stock market really went nowhere. Is that what we might be headed for longer term? Yes, exactly. That bull market really peaked in 1965 or 1966 and then it churned back and forth - and inflation ravaged it, even though the nominal...