Word: peaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alongside the stream, the neon lights of the handful of motels and restaurants wink on. A heavy truck, loaded with cut pine, rumbles past on U.S. 20. Off to the west, Bishop Peak turns indigo. As the darkness unfurls, Lempke stands in a spot he has stood in a hundred times before, watching his fish move downstream. He pauses for a moment, then, feeling the pressure on the line, moves downstream. "Look at the son of a gun go," he says to no one in particular, and pulls his hat closer to his skull...
...substantive step the Administration took last week was to increase the amount of surplus foods that will be distributed free from the Government's stockpiles. The program to give away cheese had been cut back from a peak of 60 million tons per month to about 30 million tons because of pressure from manufacturers who said it was hurting sales. The amount will now rise to 40 million tons. More butter, powdered milk, corn meal and honey will also be released from federal storage. In addition, the White House is withdrawing its opposition to a bill to provide...
...figures that prompted these effusions were indeed startlingly cheerful. After six months of disappointingly slow declines from its 42-year peak of 10.8% set last December, the U.S. unemployment rate suddenly plummeted in July. It fell to 9.5% of all those looking for work (not counting members of the armed forces), from an even 10% in June. Not since December 1959, almost a quarter-century earlier, had the rate dropped so much in a single month...
...major steelmaker, however, is trying to help dislocated employees understand that the end of a steelmaking job is not the end of the road. Bethlehem, where employment has gone from a peak of 115,000 in 1975 to 48,500 at present, was the first major U.S. corporation to develop a comprehensive program to deal with the emotional impact of permanent layoffs...
...course of this transition may be an important element in the "crib deaths" that can mysteriously strike during the first year. The struggle to escape from accidental smothering in bedclothes, known as the "respiratory occlusion reflex," is automatic at birth but then needs to be learned. Says Lipsitt: "The peak of 'disarray' is right at the point when crib death is most likely to occur, as if the baby doesn't know whether to be reflexive or cognitive. Suppose a child gets into a compromising situation where it has lost the reflex and has not acquired...