Word: peaking
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...didn't know it yet, but we had been playing in the Bernard Madoff Investment Securities LLC Fantasy Financial League. It began when we sold our home at the peak of the market, collected what was left from an old divorce, found other monies and then, with a combination of pleasure and trepidation, handed over our life savings to someone named Stanley Chais, the Los Angeles network organizer for a man named Bernard Madoff...
Such intervention is uncommon in the low-resource nations that are home to the most smokers. In 1992, for example, China reached a smoking rate of 10 cigarettes per person per day - the peak level in the U.S. in the 1950s. Forty years later, Americans paid the price of all that lighting up, with a record 33% of all middle-aged deaths caused by cigarettes. If smoking in China continues to climb in coming years - and without public health programs to discourage it, it likely will - an even higher proportion of its population will succumb to cancer after...
...drudgery and the opportunity to go home in a week. Or maybe the cold is coaxing us into our rooms like turtles into shells. Or perhaps Christmas spirit really does exist. Whatever it is, I’ve noticed that house life at Harvard reaches its peak during the holidays. Girls lay out dresses for house formals, Secret Santas creep through corridors, and the dining halls smell like evergreen forests because of the wreaths we have put up and the trees we have decorated ourselves. Now more than ever, students are retreating into their houses and surrounding themselves with...
...sending in fighters from Pakistan and sometimes recruiting local Kashmiris. The LeT is one of many militant groups that have agitated here, often violently, against India. Indeed, India and Pakistan have fought two wars over the disputed territory of Kashmir; and just as the Mumbai massacre was at its peak, a threatening Nov. 28 hoax phone call, purportedly from the Indian foreign ministry, to Pakistani President Asif Zardari convinced Islamabad to move several of its troops toward the Indian frontier for fear of an attack from New Delhi. Meanwhile, one of the Mumbai attackers mentioned Kashmir in a rambling interview...
...came to Cambridge, he was disappointed with the site. The building shows his usual sense of rhythm — there are some wonderful ramps, some wonderful colors, and some wonderful changes of space. Unfortunately, his one American project was not the achievement of a man at the peak of his powers. THC: What I find most interesting about your book is how mercurial Le Corbusier’s personality was. What do you think we gain from an understanding of the artist’s life? NFW: The thing I hope I point out in my book is what...