Word: peaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the three Olympic villages opened for the athletes two weeks before the Games, Ueberroth waited for the predicted nightmares to happen. By now the tension had reached its peak. "I always had the feeling," he recalls, "that at any second something would erupt." Foremost in his mind was the realization that at Munich in 1972 the Israeli athletes had not been seized until the tenth day. "I carried a calendar around in the center of my skull," he says. Crises, small and large, occurred by the hour. The man Ueberroth had picked to climb the towering steps...
Increasingly fierce competition intensified congestion and stomach-wrenching delays at major airports. Under pres- sure from the Government, the airlines worked out a plan to move about 1,000 flights from peak-hour slots in New York City, Chicago, Atlanta and Denver...
...processing applications. More than 15,000 other Cubans have applied for regular visas, and in all, more than 20,000 may be permitted to immigrate in 1985. During the 1960s and '70s, an average of about 26,000 Cubans arrived legally in the U.S. each year, reaching a peak of 70,000 during Jimmy Carter's first year in office. Since the 1980 flotilla, fewer than 3,000 Cubans a year have been allowed into...
...object discovered by McCarthy and his colleagues-Frank Low of the University of Arizona and Ronald Probst of the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson-has been dubbed VB 8B and is some 600 million miles from the star it orbits. It is visible only through powerful telescopes. Although it is nine-tenths the size of Jupiter, its mass is ten to 50 times greater. It is also a good deal warmer: 2,000° F, in contrast to Jupiter's -240°, or as Gatewood put it, "as hot as a Pittsburgh blast furnace...
...Donnell returned to teaching the subject seven years ago, after raising six children. Her re-entry came at the nadir for Latin in the U.S. In 1976 just over 150,000 American public high school students took the language, down a disastrous 79% from the 1962 peak of 702,000. "Latin went into a slump with the Sputnik era, with its concentration on science and technology," she recalls. And she says, "Then came the permissive age," the 1960s and early 1970s, when demands for so-called relevancy in course content pushed many schools to reduce or abandon classical studies...