Word: peaks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wherever the visitor goes, he is charmed and intrigued by the place names. A limestone peak in Kweilin is called Piled Silk Hill for its varicolored layers of rock; the structure at its top, up 400 (count 'em) stone steps, is the Cloud-Catching Pavilion. A little pleasance in Wusih has been known for 470 years as Leave Your Pleasure Garden-ever since the man who built it was summoned to high office in far-off Peking and, not being able to take his heart's delight with him, bequeathed it to the populace. The spectacular park...
...building on Boylston Street represents a major footstep for Bok. The space there will almost double the level of activity that the school had last year in Littauer Center. A five year plan calls for student enrollment to reach a peak of 500 and the addition of seven executive programs (short intensive programs for people already high on the ladder of government) to the three now in existence. The faculty will increase from 30 to 50 members and the number of research programs from one (the Center for Science and International Affairs...
...frustration reached a peak when, with one minute remaining, Harvard's Andy Kronfeld tried to mix it up with Ram fullback Kevin Murphy after Kronfeld fell and Murphy held his foot...
During the mad, magnificent peak travel season of '78, commercial flying finally became a mass transit business. Drawn by all the bargain fares, hordes of vacationers-retired couples, hirsute backpackers, whole families loaded down with bikes, fold-up baby strollers and other paraphernalia -swarmed into the nation's airports and almost overnight cured the airlines' lingering problem of too many empty seats. While it was a boon to the industry, whose planes have been setting records in passenger loadings (63% of capacity) and earnings (expected to be about $1 billion this year), the summer of the discounts...
Studies by such groups as the World Health Organization and the World Bank have noted a sharp drop in the peak age of child malnutrition in these areas as a result of the "alarming" decrease in breastfeeding in the past two decades. Babies are now commonly suffering from the deadly combination of malnutrition and diarrhea--often caused by bacteria-infested, diluted or ill-prepared formula--as early as three to six months after birth. In light of the fact that the critical period for brain development is the first two years of life, this situation is indeed tragic...