Word: peaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like them all," says the curator from Brownsville and Bedford- Stuyvesant , completing his tour, "but Nelson and Gans are special. Both of them great fighters ((lightweights)) and fellow opponents near their peak at the same time. That's always special...
...pattern of defense appropriations -- way up for a few years, way down for the next few. In the early Reagan years, reversing a series of deep cuts in the mid-'70s, Congress voted military-spending increases as much as 13% above the rate of inflation; from 1980 to the peak in fiscal year 1985, Pentagon budget authority zoomed from $144 billion to $295 billion. The Pentagon's appetite for deluxe weaponry swallowed up so much of those titanic sums that the buildup failed to achieve some major goals. Overall, it did bring a much needed improvement in U.S. combat strength...
...Corbero's work its sardonic, free-associating air and its obsessively fine craftsmanship. There are delicious Miroesque touches in this show, like the comb jauntily set on the queen's head, grooved with the bars of the Catalan shield, or the wacky little pyramid that balances on the needle peak of a pawn called Miss Capicua, 1987-88. Other details resurrect the images of heraldic encounter, the dungeons and dragons that lie within the shapes of chessmen. Loving the double image, Corbero is part heir to Catalan surrealism. The son and grandson of metalsmiths, he sometimes gets a bit overrefined...
...Theoharis believes foreign policy agitation may already have reached its peak, she does not believe activism in general is dying out. She says students are working for social and political changes closer to home, where students can make a visible difference--like the one sought by Lisa J. Schkolnick '88, who has charged the Fly Club, one of Harvard's nine all-male final clubs, with sexual discrimination...
...perhaps he shouldn't. During the late 1970's, at the peak of OPEC's power, the term "energy crisis" was on everyone's lips. The long lines and high prices at the gas station were painful, daily reminders that the world is running out of petroleum...