Word: peaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sheehan downplayed the performance that won him his All-America honors, saying "The distance runners were trying to peak for the outdoor season. My win at the IC4As was my best race. The time wasn't really good. It was a tactical race. I expected someone to make a break for it, but no one started to kick until the final straightaway. I just accelerated faster than they...
...upper monument three years later. But the new marble was slightly different in wearing quality, and a 26-ft. band was fixed in place before engineers rematched the stone. That band is noticeable today. In December 1884, a 100-oz. aluminum cap was placed on the spike-shaped peak. Then on a wintry Saturday morning in February, the dapper President Chester Arthur, according to a contemporary account, "laid his silk hat at his side, slowly removed his heavy doeskin gloves and deposited them in it, held his eyeglasses on his nose" and read the official dedication. Mathew Brady, the famous...
...could soon grow enough grain and fiber to feed and clothe itself comfortably operating at just half its full crop-growing capacity; the rest could be profitably employed only by selling overseas. But U.S. farm exports, after multiplying more than six times, from $7 billion in 1970 to a peak of $43.8 billion in 1981, fell more than 20% in the next two years, and are reviving only slightly now: the 1985 total is expected to be $36.5 billion...
...City's specially-created Office of Cable Television--which operates on an annual budget of $139,000 and employees a staff of three--for a glance at the 300-page report of state mandated rules which guided the cable franchises through the bidding process. Or request a peak at the transcripts of more than eleven hours of public hearings conducted in January...
...health and engineering. The median age has risen from 23 in the 1960s to 28 today. Volunteers make an average of $215 a month plus expenses during the usual two years of service. The total number of volunteers has remained at about 5,500 since 1981, far below the peak of 15,550 in 1966, but interest in the agency is picking up. Since the Peace Corps announced a drive last month to recruit 600 agricultural specialists to help solve food-production problems in Africa, it has received some 10,000 responses...