Word: peaks
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...also hopes that racing in the Invitational will better prepare the team for February's Eastern championships, an event for which she says the team wants to be "at a peak." Each event features three consecutive days of swimming...
...first cut produced 137 names. The second, and most excruciating, yielded 50. "It was like selecting the person who is Most Likely to Succeed for the school yearbook," says assistant editor Elizabeth Rudulph, who coordinated research for the project. "You don't want to pick someone who will peak early and then fade." By the same token, says Faith Corman, a free-lance journalist who also worked on the issue, "an overachiever is not the same thing as a leader...
...Trouble with Tribbles, peak of Star Trek humor...
Other research on people who have survived suicide attempts suggests that some of the biochemical changes are temporary and may peak in the weeks prior to the act. If that finding holds up, it could lead to a lab test that would identify those who are most immediately vulnerable. Studies show that half of all people who commit suicide visit their doctor in the month prior to their death. Most of the time the physician finds nothing medically wrong with them and sends them home. Doctors may someday be able to give these people a blood test that measures their...
...fight over the Pentagon's fiscal 1996 budget began early, when Defense Secretary William Perry acknowledged that three of the Army's 12 divisions were below peak readiness levels, principally due to the cost of missions to Haiti, Rwanda and elsewhere. Republicans claimed the revelation proved the wisdom of their campaign pledge to pump more money into the military...