Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make sure that as little water as possible was created, Kraft ordered the astronauts to power down to 15 amperes from a peak of 44 amperes. On the sixth day, Kraft said that he might have to bring down Gemini 5 on its 107th orbit, one day short of its planned reentry...
...time being, at least−the volcanic fury had spent itself, and white officialdom slowly relaxed its tight vise on the area. By week's end only 1,000 National Guardsmen remained of the 14,000 who had been rushed in at the riots' peak...
...redo their homework as a result of the new figures, and though much of the Administration's tax and economic program has been based on the discredited statistics, the revision does not change any of the economy's basic trends. The revised G.N.P. showed that the peak of the 1958-60 expansion and the bottom of the 1960 recession occurred a quarter earlier than believed, lessons that are valuable mostly for Government economic planners. Says Arthur Okun, a member of the Council of Economic Advisers: "The new figures don't indicate that we would have followed...
...take it as a sign that we have turned the corner from deficits to surpluses." Nonetheless, even the careful qualifications could not conceal the fact that the U.S. has come quite a way from its $756 million loss in 1965's first quarter and the peak $1.6 billion deficit of 1964's last quarter. If the new figures did not show that the payments problem is licked, they at least demonstrated how it can be dealt with. The factors that contributed to the new figures...
...with a scarlet muleta. Before a bull's horns end his short unhappy career, he attains wealth, loneliness, a retinue of greedy hangers-on, a house for his mother, a fast convertible and faster women-one a sleek, actressy adventuress named Linda, who takes her matadors at their peak, and is played, in a brief and startlingly persuasive performance, by Linda Christian. Moment gives this conventional plot the classic simplicity of folk art. Gianni di Venanzo's vibrant color photography uncovers the temper of Spain among black-hooded worshipers at a religious festival, among whores and homosexuals...