Word: plateauing
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...months on the Plaine des Jarres, headquarters of both the neutralist and Communist Pathet Lao armies, the Reds have been slowly squeezing their former neutralist allies in an effort to drive them off the grassy plateau. Defying last summer's 14-nation Geneva accords guaranteeing Laotian neutrality, the Pathet Lao is still reinforced by Communist Viet Minh cadres from North Viet Nam; to the north of the Plaine des Jarres, Red Chinese troops are building roads linking China with Red-controlled Laos itself. Slowly the Communists have been pinching off supplies to Neutralist Army Leader General Kong...
Armed with a thick black notebook crammed with facts about Central America, President Kennedy prepared to fly this week to San Jose, the tree-shaded capital city on Costa Rica's central plateau. In the city's massive National Theater building, he was to spend three days in conference with six Central American Presidents, underlining again his expressed belief that Latin America is "the most critical area in the world today...
...their fertile plateau, 930 feet above the Mediterranean, the Moslem citizens of El Marj (pop. 13,000) welcomed the sunset one day last week. It brought to an end another day-long fast imposed by the holy month of Ramadan. Families gathered at table to break their fast with the traditional Ramadan dinner-and many died where they were sitting, for sunset brought the shock and terror of the worst earthquake in Libyan history...
...economic signals. That reading has made him more optimistic about the U.S. economy than he was six months ago. Of dozens of businessmen interviewed across the U.S. last week by TIME correspondents, the great majority look forward to slowly rising business activity this year-or, at the worst, a plateau of high-level prosperity. In contrast to President Kennedy's warning about a possible recession unless a tax cut passes Congress, few are seriously worried about a recession. In fact, few think a tax cut would do them very much good for some time, and they are not counting...
Nevertheless, in the cold glance of retrospect, one cannot escape the conclusion that, when the four characters have been laid bare to the innards, they are all nullities in essence. The play is about four nobodies; and this too keeps it from reaching the plateau of O'Neill, for one. Month after month of theatrical mediocrity may be the reason that one critic hailed Albee as "a major dramatist, quite possibly the most important playwright since O'Neill, whom he resembles and, in some respects, betters." O'Neill is not that easily surpassed--but this is not the place...