Word: plateauing
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...that designers draw--are what it's all about. "Five years ago, there were 200 skate parks," says John Bernards, executive director of the International Association of Skateboard Companies. "Today there are over 2,400, with many more under construction." During those same years, skate-park design reached a plateau of sophistication that you might not have expected from guys who wear really baggy shorts. As skaters have moved into the role of designers, establishing firms like SITE Design Group, Dreamland, Team Pain and Grindline--a grind is what you do when you skate down one of those steel-pipe...
...masonry wall. Sometimes he unslings the Steyr assault rifle from his shoulder and just blasts away. His targets -soldiers of the East Timorese Army, the FDTL-scurry about 200 m below. Every so often a bullet whines overhead, but from his hillside position on the edge of a small plateau near the capital Dili's television tower, Mosoco is a difficult target. "He has killed five or six," says one of his men, who are a mixture of unemployed youngsters and police officers. The police are well armed and in uniform, but the youths carry only knives, slingshot darts...
...pleasure - mine, anyway - to come to Cannes knowing that, every two years, Pedro can be counted on to bring another splendid film. Is Volver a masterpiece? Probably not. But it is the work of a master still at the peak, the high plateau, of his form...
...ground on which Harvard and HFAI are treading resembles a long, graded hike up to a high and rocky plateau. Broken down by family income, about 25 percent of Harvard families make less than $80,000 a year. Next year, HFAI will address significantly more of these families’ financial needs, including the elimination of parental contribution for families earning under $60,000 a year. As impressive as this sounds, these initial 25 percent of families are the metaphorical warm-up jaunt through scrub brush and pine needles in anticipation of the difficult, rocky climb ahead...
...After the Americans defeated the Finns for the bronze medal earlier Monday, Smith referred to a two-tier reality in women's hockey: Canada and U.S.A. on one plateau, everyone else scrambling to catch up. In fact, there are three tiers: Canada and the U.S., Finland and Sweden, then the rest...