Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rising every year since 1959, expenditures for office building in the U.S. reached a peak of $2.5 billion last year, but the Census Bureau expects these figures to climb another 16% to $2.9 billion in 1966. New contracts for office buildings surged 25% ahead of their 1965 pace during the first two months of this year, according to F. W. Dodge construction statistics...
...force reduction. That would mean carrying workers as unemployed-anathema to Marxists. It would also be a threat to central planning. Unfortunately, old-line functionaries, anxious to preserve their jobs and perquisites, have dug in. Pointing to a modest upturn in the lagging Czech economy (the result of a peak investment cycle), the purists have stalemated a large part of the new model...
...When a man's wife called the boss last week and said he couldn't get to work because he was in bed with the flu, chances were that she was telling the truth. Across the U.S., the flu season was reaching a peak. In the New York metropolitan area, most of the illness seemed to be of a mild variety caused by still unidentified viruses; New Eng land, Georgia and Florida had spotty outbreaks caused by Type B influenza virus. California, hardest hit, was in the throes of an epidemic of Asian Type-A flu. And Californians...
...Inevitably, in a few cases the flu led to pneumonia, mostly among infants or oldsters whose health was poor to begin with. Among the other victims was Susan Ann Lombardo, 26, the bandleader's niece. There was no way to tell when the California epidemic would pass its peak...
...first hour of their pamphleteering was relatively quiet, with only a few minor incidents. The threats reached a peak midway through the lunch hour, when the general cry was "Send them to Vietnam. Get them out of here...