Word: plateauing
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...sunrise touched the jagged rocks of Montejurra last week, 60,000 Spaniards followed wooden crosses and old battle flags up steep paths toward a plateau on the mountaintop. There, at the heart of the old northern kingdom of Navarre, they gathered for their annual commemoration of two bloody 19th century civil wars in which their ancestors fought to put a Carlist king on the throne of Spain...
...smoking cigars?" ads have been discreetly rephrased to "Have you noticed how many people are smoking cigars?" The cigar companies doubt that the feminine market will last, and predict that cigarette sales will increase again; but the industry hopes nonetheless to keep cigar sales on the high plateau they have reached. To do so, and to attract young men about to smoke for the first time, it has raised its annual advertising another 15% to $35 million this year...
Talk of 10 Million. The climate for the new sports cars could hardly be better. After two 7,000,000-plus auto years in a row, the industry in 1964 is not only moving irresistibly toward a new record, but is almost certain to break through a plateau that seemed practically unattainable only a few years ago. Even before the tax cut, Detroit was headed for at least an 8,000,000-car year. With the cut-and the continued health of the U.S. economy- it is now debating whether it will be held to 8,200,000 sales (including...
...often slows down even when they have plenty of food. Horrible things happen among jammed-up flour beetles. Females destroy their eggs; they turn cannibalistic and eat one another. Males lose interest in females, and though plenty of flour is left for food, the beetle population reaches a statistical plateau...
Galbraith asserted that in spite of general increases in national and personal income, some people remain poor today because they lack necessary mental and physical skills. These people are now located principally in congested urban areas and in the rural Appalachian Plateau running from eastern Pennsylvania to Alabama...