Word: plateauing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Heartbreak Hill is really impressive and really long,” he said. “You think you’re going to make it because in the middle of it there’s a plateau, but then there’s another half mile of hill behind that...
...Well, it looks like what looked like a bottoming out of consumer confidence in March may have been a plateau. With announced layoffs reaching record levels in March - at the pace of some 7,000 per business day - and with the markets still in trouble, we may be finding out that consumer confidence has yet to stop falling...
...good news for John McCain, who always looked his best in an uphill climb, is that this plateau will be brief. After five years spent getting McCain-Feingold to the Senate floor and two weeks dodging bullets once it got there, McCain-Feingold passed the Senate in an anticlimactic 59-41 roll-call vote Monday evening...
Instead, the 40-point plateau went to his younger brother, sophomore center Dominic Moore, and Steve occasionally looked only too eager to control the puck too long to take the shot himself...
...meticulously conscious structures. His power of organization was awesome; his spread of quotation, wide. What caused the individual citations to hang together, though, was his eye for nature. Nowhere is this clearer than in his huge composition of 1937, The Mountain. Every one of the figures on this plateau of the Bernese Oberland is quoted from somewhere else--the girl lying down in the foreground comes from a Poussin, and so on. The green-capped rocks are real, but they are also inspired by Courbet's landscapes. But what so lifts the picture is its soft, rapturous golden light, bathing...