Word: peaks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Peak burnout time is now--the Bureau of Study Counsel calendars are full with students who complain about uncharacteristic exhaustion and lack of motivation. Recognizing the signs early, he writes, can stop this burnout before it becomes debilitating...
Access time especially suffers between 5 and 6:30 p.m., when faculty leave for the day and students check e-mail before dinner, Steen said. The second peak occurs around 11 p.m. and the gradually falls off at about 2 a.m. Server use increases again beginning in the morning...
...want to win all of our dual meets," Haggerty said. "The first couple of weeks will give us a base for moving on. Track is a sport where by nature you're trying to peak at the right time, since your championship is decided by one meet...
HAPPY MUNI YEAR Low inflation and high yields are making municipal bonds an attractive buy. The yield on benchmark munis reached 5.99% a few weeks ago, a peak for the year. Those returns have slipped a bit since, but munis still offer relatively high rates. They are yielding more than 90% of a comparable Treasury bond, the result in part of an abundant supply. "Historically, muni yields are not this close to Treasury yields with the same maturity," says Mark Tenenhaus, director of municipal research for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. The kicker is that the muni bonds are tax free...
WARM UP Expect your new speakers to take 12 hr. to 50 hr. to "burn in," or reach peak performance...