Word: peakings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...present, 72 nuclear plants are operational in the U.S., and the Carter Administration's energy planners had projected as many as 500 by the year 2000, producing a quarter of the country's power. But construction has turned down sharply since the peak year of 1974, when utilities ordered 26 new reactors. Between 1975 and 1977, three or four a year were ordered; in 1978 there were only two. Many earlier reactor orders have been canceled or deferred...
What changes in the world food condition account for this pronounced media trend? Why the peak in references to "world famine...
...pattern emerges: sudden accelerated interest followed by a sudden decline ininterest, with a clear peak in the year...
...this midst of this, the oarsman is thinking: concentrating on the proper technique for peak efficiency, compensating for choppy waves and gusts of wind, and by the last 500 meters of the course, "psyching up" before a total depletion of strength. At that point, says one oarsman, "You have to work through the pain; it's mentally taxing, too, you have to push and drive yourself to the maximum. Everything disappears...
Murray Weidenbaum, 52, economist, St. Louis. He has been putting his money into short-term securities like Treasury bills. When interest rates peak and start declining, he plans to shift into three-to-five year Treasury notes and perhaps municipal bonds to lock in the higher rates. Less than one-quarter of his assets are in stocks. Says Weidenbaum: "I have been the typical small investor who gets burned repeatedly. I have had a diversified portfolio of lemons...