Word: peaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...river blows cigarette butts and debris up Boylston Street at that hour of the morning, and cold jets of air blast into every pore in the faces of stragglers making their way down the uneven brick sidewalks. Crossing Anderson Bridge the chill of the wind hits its peak. Billowing gusts whip down the Charles from the Atlantic, chilling to tears, and anyone crossing the construct stiff-leggedly because his joints feel frozen, wishes to hell he'd never dragged himself out of his humid sheets to face this arctic wasteland...
Steinberg and friends were South Florida drug dealers. Big ones. According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, at Steinberg's peak in 1978 his group imported one-sixth of all marijuana entering the country. Steinberg accepts the DEA'S estimates of his business ($100 million annual revenues on 500,000 Ibs. of marijuana) but not his exalted rank. Says he: "There are hundreds of outfits like mine. Certainly there are scores...
...slashed plant capacity, in part because he believes that tire sales in the foreseeable future will not return to the levels set during the early 1970s. Reasons: radials wear much longer than bias tires, and auto production is unlikely to reach its prior peak levels...
...different approachs to soccer of the competing schools, the Crimson once again displayed its ability to come back and execute in the clutch. "It was nice winning the last two games after some hard luck in the first match." Scalise added. "Remember that our girls were trying to peak for the third time this season [after overtime victories in both the Ivy League and Eastern Tournaments] while for teams like UNC [which was awarded its region's national tournament berth and thus played its first post-season tourney this weekend], this was the post-season peak...
...Peak or no peak, the booters, after the disappointing loss to UCF, bounced back to crush tenth-seeded Texas A&M, 4-2, Saturday afternoon...