Word: peaks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Presidential Range in northern New Hampshire is home to the world's worst weather, at the peak of Mt. Washington. Winter wind speeds of 231 mph have been recorded at the top of the 6,288-foot mountain...
This IPO, by the way, may be an early indicator of just such a turn. Look at the Boston Celtics, which went public in 1986. It was the very peak of a hoops dynasty that included NBA championships in 1981, '84 and '86. They made it to the finals in '85 and again in '87. But their great players started leaving soon after, and the team has been "rebuilding" for nearly a decade. Oh, yeah, Celtics stock has been anything but a slam-dunk, soaring from $18 1/2 to just over $20--in 12 years. Even if you count dividends...
...thrill. But the Indians illustrate a problem with all IPOs: they are timed for sale, not purchase. They come to market when everything is clicking, when the main risks are that the good times, which you are paying for, won't last. Companies, after all, can peak just like sports teams...
...when She's Come Undone was rediscovered. Even so, his life as a solitary writer was tossed upside down. "When Oprah came tapping at the biosphere door, it was a kick," he says, "but I sort of had to take a hiatus for a couple of months." At the peak of Oprah fever, Lamb was getting about 75 letters a month from readers, and he had to rent a telephone-free office across town in order to finish the new novel...
...show of his own. It was a British producer, Lew Grade, who finally offered Henson the financing that enabled him to mount The Muppet Show. The program ran in syndication from 1976 until 1981, when Henson decided to end it lest its quality begin to decline. At its peak it was watched each week by 235 million viewers around the world. Stars from Steve Martin to Rudolf Nureyev appeared as guest hosts, and the show launched the career of Miss Piggy, the vain, tres sophistiquee female who was besotted with Kermit...