Word: peaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Russell said. "The coach was pleased about it and so was I--it was a personal best. I'm glad it came early in the season. There is always room for improvement. By the time the bigger meets come around the whole team will be refined and ready to peak at those meets...
...adulation of his teachings. Korea watchers in the U.S. doubt that he would trifle with his self-created legend merely to score a propaganda victory. Says a Reagan Administration official: "It's awfully difficult to imagine they'd do that. Kim Il Sung is like Stalin at the peak of his power...
...penny-pinching moves have come just in time; criticism of GM's bloated size has been reaching a peak. Says one prominent critic, Maryann Keller, who follows the auto industry for the investment firm of Furman Selz Mager Dietz & Birney: "GM has done more to help itself in the last three months than it has in the last few years combined." But GM's Smith will have to cut costs even more dramatically if he hopes to quiet the company's sharp- tongued gadfly, H. Ross Perot, chairman of Dallas-based Electronic Data Systems. Perot, who joined the GM board...
...merge the sixth largest U.S. agency, BBDO International, with Doyle Dane Bernbach Group (No. 12) and Needham Harper Worldwide (No. 16). Their combined annual billings of $5 billion made the new agency, now called Omnicom Group, the world's biggest -- for a moment anyway. The commotion reached another peak two weeks later, when Britain's acquisitive Saatchi & Saatchi agreed to buy Ted Bates Worldwide, the third ranking U.S. agency, to create yet another world's largest ad group, this time with billings of $7.5 billion...
Although the longer dinner hour may not be useful for upperclassmen, it has have had a positive effect on crowding at the Union as fewer freshmen eat during peak hours, said Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett...