Word: peakings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sergeant in a marked Harvard police cruiser and two patrolmen are always stationed at Radcliffe, whose security the Harvard police took over in 1965. Another sergeant drives a marked cruiser in the Harvard area, and is responsible for five patrolmen, except from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m., the peak period, when he is responsible for seven...
...past two years Harvard has edged Penn for the national championship. The Crimson reached its peak last March when it had five of the six finalists in the intercollegiate six-man tournament championship. Penn had been slightly favored, but Harvard humiliated the Quakers and every other collegiate team...
...Matter of Loyalty. Why did Crown, whose personal wealth is estimated at more than $400 million, want to re-enter the scene at General Dynamics? Last year profits tumbled from a 1966 peak of $54 million to $2,530,000, only one-tenth of 1% of the company's $2.5 billion sales. G.D. has been plagued by losses in its shipyard division, a microfilm products subsidiary, and the controversial F-111 fighter-bomber...
...There is a significant peak in telephone usage during the four or five hours around noon every workday. During many of the 20 other hours of the day, the telephone system is almost idle. But the Bell System and the FCC have had great difficulty in responding to this obvious problem. This is especially tragic for Bell's shareholders because, with a $41 billion investment in plant, any minute when it is not being used to peak capacity is costing them a great deal in lost profits...
...paying plenty of attention to them, both to their excesses and to the underlying causes of their despair, if despair it is. In fact, some observers believe that the radical movement in the U.S. has passed its peak. Harvard's Seymour Lipset notes that "terrorism can mark either the beginning or the end of a movement...