Word: peaks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Swimming at the Ritz at the peak of her influence? What a perfect exit, an elegant ending she could not have planned better...
McKinney, 46, is not just any NCO. A highly decorated, 28-year veteran who served with the infantry in Vietnam, he rose through every enlisted Army leadership position before reaching its peak. Four of his brothers have worn Army green and his identical twin James is sergeant major of the Army's Training and Doctrine Command, overseeing troops at Aberdeen and the Army's other training bases...
...phone lines were swamped once again, this time by users requesting refunds. Many of them were angry at being kept on hold for long periods, but state regulators pronounced themselves satisfied. Most analysts also seemed unconcerned. Said Lehman Brothers analyst Brian Oakes: "I think we've passed the peak of the problems with both the busy signals and the refund calls. There's always an initial wave...
MOVIES . . . . DANTE'S PEAK: "Disaster movies are our millennial No plays, totally stylized, totally predictable, but comforting in their familiarity," says TIME's Richard Schickel. "Whether the threat to domestic tranquillity is a ferocious shark, invading spacemen or a rogue volcano (as in Dante's Peak), it reassures us that nice people, if they are smart, brave and quick on their feet, will somehow survive." Writer Leslie Bohem and director Roger Donaldson brush briskly through the standard scientific and romantic blather. They know that in movies like this, complexity is the province of the special-effects people...
...enthralling new documentary, 'He fused politics and sport.' Ali?s conversion to the Black Muslims tested white America's fondness for him. His refusal to serve in the Army made him the Vietnam War?s most famous conscientious objector and deprived him of work for three years at the peak of his craft. Then Ali returned to lose the heavyweight belt to Joe Frazier. Leon Gast's documentary details the next step in Ali's career: Act III of a great and poignant pageant. This was the Rumble in the Jungle, the 1974 fight with George Foreman in Zaire...