Word: peakings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weren't in peak condition when we came back from a long Christmas break," Williams said yesterday. "But our plays were really working on Friday...
...Woodward and Six Mile Road, a barbed wire fence protects one of the city's closed automobile plants. Sex shops, pornographic movie theaters and topless bars flourish throughout the surrounding area. During the day many of the workers who have lost their jobs since the industry reached its peak three years ago visit these places. Industry-wide auto sales rose 48 per cent last year, but unemployment in Detroit and Pontiac remains at over 20 per cent. Average unemployment in the two cities throughout 1974 hovered at around 30 percent. The percentage of unemployment for those under...
YEARS (Columbia). In peak form, the noted pop balladeer comes up with tunes that are as ingratiating as ever, and introspective, melancholy lyrics...
...vineyards were turned into bloody battlefields, has the French champagne industry seen bigger trouble. Having grown steadily and sometimes spectacularly since the mid-1950s, sales of the French bubbly have been in a steep slide. Last year French vintners were horrified when champagne sales dropped 16% below the 1973 peak of 125 million bottles, to 105 million bottles. This year sales may fall below 100 million bottles for the first time since 1969. "We're not a product of primary necessity," says Jean-Michel Ducellier, head of France's Union of Great Champagne Trademarks, a producers' association...
...worst predictions of the glummest pessimists. In the first three months of 1975, the nation's output of goods and services plunged at an annual rate of 11.4%, the steepest drop in 30 years. Unemployment, which began soaring at the end of 1974, continued bounding up to a peak of 9.2% last May-the highest since before Pearl Harbor. Fear spread that the nation might have started on a downward spiral into depression...