Word: peakings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...championship last year, but injuries in their first two games made them easy pickings for Dartmouth, 41-9, and for Princeton two weeks later. Harvard, Yale and Cornell enjoyed victories at their expense as well, and this year Penn may have passed its peak. Only 15 lettermen return...
...said at the time that McCarthy was the first to discover how to use the mass media for personal advancement. I am afraid this is too large a claim, but certainly he raised the practice momentarily to a new peak of effectiveness. The organs of public opinion gave him enormous coverage for years and thus contributed to build his reputation...
...that might have distorted the dwarf's light. But repeated observations produced the same results. Finally, Columbia University Astronomers Roger Angel and John Landstreet, told of the strange readings atop Pine Mountain, quickly verified them with more powerful telescopes and slightly different techniques at Arizona's Kitt Peak National Observatory...
Unemployment, now 5% of the labor force, stands at a five-year peak, and many experts predict a small additional rise this fall. Among those most affected are young people, who face difficulty getting hired at all. One unexpected result is that the Marines are attracting higher-quality volunteers. "They get out of college and can't find a job, so they join," says General Lewis Walt, assistant commandant. "We hope we can keep some of them...
Stein likes to keep close watch on social problems and political currents in order to sense more keenly how they may affect movements in the market. "In the late 1960s," he says, "we had a market that rose to a peak because it was built on speculation and hope. Then came the big decline, and millions of people got hurt. Today there is a return to conservatism in America. A majority of people cherish the forms of this society, but are fearful that they will be destroyed. Today they see nothing to make them hope. We are still...