Word: peakes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...deep tunnel" 700 feet below ground. Water would flow down there during a storm and would be pumped back up when the danger of flooding had abated. The tunnel would double as a power generator with water being pumped up during slack hours and running down during hours of peak demand for electricity. Engineers say the scheme is feasible, according to Bacon...
There is something special about the mind of a good lawyer-he does not think as others do. He will not accept easy generalizations nor climb quickly to a conclusion. He prefers, like a mountaineer intent upon a peak, to take the more careful, circuitous route so that he can be surer of his ground. He loves the facts, detests disarray and imprecision, and spends his working hours trying to define life within a framework of the law. He is not born this way; it takes a law school to turn the necessary bent of mind. And for thousands...
...boom itself is an extremely loud noise. Shurcliff describes it as making every house along the boom path seem "next door to a jet airport"--only worse. The sound of an arriving jet (all commercial jets fly below the speed of sound) builds up gradually, so at the peak of the noise there is no element of surprise. But a sonic boom provides no warning, and Shurcliff thinks that it is the boom's startling effect, even more than the noise itself, which makes it intolerable...
Rusty Machinery. Generally, Administration economists are suspicous of the reasons given for the price surge. They concede the need to prop profits against the pressure of higher wage, transportation and other costs. But with industrial plants running at a slack 85% of capacity (v. last year's 91% peak), they also suspect business of using any pretext to raise prices in order to reap a windfall of earnings as the economy picks up. Reflecting this root distrust, Ackley recently took special pains to chide the rubber industry for following a strike-forced labor settlement that was "clearly...
...went up an average 19.8%. Un employment, probably the most sensitive problem for Germans since the Wirtschaftswunder all but erased it, dropped almost 5% in August, to 1.7% of the labor force, still an uneasy fig ure compared with the 1% of August 1966, but way down from a peak of 3.1% last February...