Word: peakings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...only four tuna have been boated. (The fishermen have hooded nine others, all of whom got away.) In 1964, George Deagle of the University of Western Ontario brought in a 703-lb. tuna. However, the tuna population has been on the wane in the past few years, and the peak tuna season comes two weeks after the tournament...
...time to win," George Scott said. "If we're gonna peak -- and it looks like we're finally coming around -- now's the time...
...disease were added to the list while other suspected cases were struck off, the number of possible victims bobbled up and down around the 100 mark, with only eight positively confirmed. Last week Koch's commandos and the CDC detectives agreed that the outbreak had apparently passed its peak. The workers, glad to have the area scrubbed down and cleansed as never before, were jubilant as air conditioning was turned on again-an event that generated a block-long sigh of relief in Macy's huge department store, which borders the district. At week's end rack...
...painful marketing adjustments brought on by high prices and, in the U.S., a strong congressional drive to bust the oil majors into many smaller pieces. Worst of all, the companies seemed trapped in an over-the-hill business: all sorts of "experts" were saying that world oil production would peak as soon as the early 1980s, then start on an irreversible decline...
...since January; last week major banks lifted their prime lending rate to businessmen a quarter of a point to 9¼%- the highest level since February 1975. A really tight credit squeeze could tip the economy into recession, but right now the outlook is for interest rates to peak later this year and begin to drift down...