Word: peaks
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...music is also incoporated into the lectures themselves. On Friday, Gingerich and Latham showed a real-time film of a total eclipse of the sun. After several moments of blackness, the sun began to peak out from behind the moon. Just as its light once again began to flicker, the opening guitar strains of The Beatles' "Here Comes the Sun" filtered across the room. As the sun once again enveloped the screen, George Harrison began singing and the students began applauding for a job well-done...
...August the U.S. jobless rate fell from 6.9% to 6.8%. It was the third successive monthly decline, and it brought the unemployment rate to its lowest level since January. The economists expect the jobless rate to hover around 6.7% through the end of 1987, far below the 9.7% peak reached...
...persistent trade deficit has several underlying causes. While the dollar has fallen from its peak by more than 40% against the Japanese yen, it has dropped just 6% in relation to the Taiwanese New Dollar and has actually risen 3% against the South Korean won. In addition, import prices have not risen nearly as much as they were expected to. Typically, when the dollar weakens, foreign manufacturers boost prices of products sold in the U.S. because the money they receive from American consumers is worth less when converted into other currencies. So far, though, prices of imports, not including fuel...
Before that, the 17-year plunge from a peak of 980 in 1963 to the 1980 low was regarded as proof of the decline of the nation's schools...
...high-minded Pope was in his element during a 24-hour visit to the mountainous northern Italian region of Val d'Aosta. No one wanted to risk a papal stumble, of course. So he was helicoptered on a sightseeing tour of the area around Mont Blanc, Europe's tallest peak (elevation 15,771 ft.), and troops checked every possible loose rock at the places where he was to set down. The Pope nonetheless did his best to get a taste of past climbing days in Poland. At the Brenva Glacier he insisted on a solitary, blissful 20-minute stroll...