Word: plateauing
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...love me, but it can stop him from lynching me--and that's pretty important too." (King understands there's a sort of sub-stage in here, a "de facto" stage in which civil rights pressure groups employ non-violent methods to make laws into realities.) The final plateau ushers in "the new Jerusalem ascending out of heaven from...
...revolt that overturned the tin barons and emancipated the Bolivian population from virtual serfdom. As President for all but four years since then, he pushed through needed tax reforms, redistributed land, built roads and hospitals, and began a program to resettle 500,000 Bolivians from the barren plateau to the more fertile valleys. A firm friend of the U.S., he gave ardent support to the Alliance for Progress, created so favorable an economic climate that foreign capital began to flow in, bringing a modest boom...
Though overall industrial production has been bobbing along a plateau, steel output is heading for a record 26 million tons this year, and auto production will rise almost 25%. But there is one dangerous, debilitating weakness. It is axiomatic that Britain must trade to live-and this year, as in many recent years, the country is living beyond its means in world markets...
...PATRICIA MCBRIDE, 22, was born in Teaneck, N.J., rose meteorically through the ranks to the coveted plateau of principal dancer at 18. Her versatility and repertory, from the affected beauty in La Valse to the man-eating insect in The Cage, are unmatched by any dancer her age. Petite (5 ft. 3 in.), she relies more on speed, beauty of line and polished precision than strength. She frequently tours independently in tandem with the company's acrobatic male virtuoso, Edward Villella...
...journey had begun on the hour when the sun was not yet overhead, and by half-hour of the same day, I finally reached the sixth and final plateau. I cannot express the condition I was in: I had been transformed by the journey, cleansed and purified by the perspiration that had swept over me. With pounding heart and light, hurried breaths, I opened the door and gazed upon the smiling Assemblage, then collapsed with ecstacy at attaining the Vision of my Section Man; and saw far below me Lowell Lec, infinitely plateau I saw glass doors right and left...