Word: peaks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week after having hiked fares 4 percent, the airline industry clipped its own wings on Tuesday. United Airlines announced that it is slashing ticket prices by as much as 25 percent for off-peak summer flights, prompting the other major carriers to fall quickly into formation with similar reductions and promotions. Analysts say that the carriers, buoyed by increased business and leisure travel, may have bought too many planes and put them into service too fast...
...lucrative business of importing and distributing basic commodities, such as wheat, sugar, soybeans and rice. Through sugar trading alone, he is estimated to have earned as much as $70 million a year, essentially for stamping documents. Eldest child Tutut became the queen bee of the clan. At the peak of her power, according to sources close to the family, investors seeking to meet her first had to pay a "consulting fee" of up to $50,000 to her minions...
...Edmund Hillary said he was willing to accept the possibility that Mallory got there first," says Kluger. "That was a generous statement from the person who would be surrendering his place in the pantheon of explorers." Hillary and sherpa Tenzing Norgay, were the first to successfully reach Everest?s peak in 1953. Team members expressed the hope to return another time to search for Irvine and the camera. Before leaving Mallory, they paid him their last respects. They gathered rocks and buried him, to rest forever in peace in the mountain he tried to conquer...
...only knock against Smith is that Northeastern, like Harvard, underwent considerable decline as a program after its peak...
...coming so fast that the exact count is uncertain--scourged the region. One, a behemoth originating near Chickasha, may be historic. Not for the width of its funnel--although at nearly a mile across, that was extraordinary--but a mobile Doppler radar from the University of Oklahoma clocked its peak wind speed at 318 m.p.h., which would make it the strongest wind recorded on Earth...