Word: plateauing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...skill has already grown dramatically,"Locker said. "And it will continue to do so untilwe reach the plateau of the top-20 teams in thecountry...
...down and the Soviet Union deconstructed and freedom swept across the old communist bloc, American foreign policy analyst Francis Fukuyama offered a much discussed thesis about what he called "the end of history," wherein, with communism gone, the world's civilization would settle upon a kind of sun-splashed plateau of democratic pluralism and free- market rationalism. One of the worst dangers in the post-Fukuyama world might be boredom, a fitful cultural unease...
...thing that can almost be taken for granted--junior Hobey Baker candidate Ted Drury will score his 100th point in a Harvard uniform this weekend. All he needs is one point from either game to become the 32nd player in Harvard history to reach that plateau...
...never found an answer to Harvard's twin towers. While Butler was dominating the floor, Flandermeyer wasn't doing badly herself, reaching a collegiate scoring plateau...
...East Asia were experiencing a population boom, though the great Bronze Age civilizations of India, Japan and China were at least a millennium away. Nomadic hunters and fishermen appeared for the first time along the shores of the Caspian and Aral seas and Lake Baikal. On the Iranian plateau, farmed since at least the 6th millennium B.C., people lived in houses of sun-dried brick, while craftsmen in the city of Anau used the potter's wheel to turn out elaborately shaped and painted clay vessels. These prehistoric Persians carried on trade with small villages in what is now northern...