Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Olympic medals are a true test of a skier's ability, Werner was a failure, because he never won any. He broke a leg training for the 1960 Winter Olympics, and by the time this year's Games rolled around, he was 28 and past his peak. But over the years, he won the big races at Chamonix and Wengen and Courchevel, and when he did not win, Bud mostly crashed-because he was a one-man U.S. team trying to defeat the Austrians, French, Germans, Swiss and Italians, who always dominated the sport. Nobody ever skied faster...
...went on to success and riches in show business. But he still feels mild pangs of guilt about his casual academic career, and the song is supposed to make dropouts squirm. It does. Several West Coast disk jockeys told Sherman that they won't play the song during peak audience hours, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. That's when the dropouts are still moping around the house wondering what trouble to get into. Mustn't offend them...
...airline uptrend is likely to level off during the ten-week "peak" summer season, when economy fares will temporarily climb back to almost what they are now. But the gamble on lower rates for most of the year has already paid off, and has major implications for the supersonic future. By assuring most airlines of setting new passenger records this year, it adds fuel to the argument of some airmen that the best way to get passengers up is to bring all fares down...
More than neighborliness was behind the government's withdrawal. Foreign investment in Canadian firms declined from a $600 million peak in 1960 to $130 million last year. Canada's economy has been surging, with the result that Canadians themselves have the wherewithal to buy a larger stake in their own industry. In addition, Gordon's plan to give tax reductions to foreign-owned companies that sell at least 25% of their stock to Canadians has met surprising success. Spurred by this incentive, subsidiaries as diverse as those of Du Pont and Reader's Digest have...
...meet much of their power need; U.S. utilities now build thermal power plants right on top of coal fields because it is cheaper to transport power than coal, and Britain and France cooperate on an under-Channel cable that feeds French power to Britain at the breakfast power peak, then reverses to feed British power to France at its 5 p.m. dinnertime peak...