Word: plateauing
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Armed with his rare education, Abubakar returned to the windswept Bauchi Plateau and settled down on the staff of a Boys Middle School; he was a born teacher, and might have spent his life there except for a chance remark by a friend, who said that no northern Nigerian had ever passed the examination for a Senior Teacher's Certificate. Piqued by this reflection on northern intelligence, Abubakar took the exam and, to the astonishment of southern colleagues, passed it with ease. Impressed, London University's Institute of Education granted him a scholarship...
...plateau position of the U.S. economy is a subject of discussion and debate not only in the U.S. but around the world. The big question: Will the U.S. slide into a recession or take off on another rise...
...this year seems fated to go down in history as the year of the disappearing boom." Giro Koike, senior managing director of Japan's Yamaichi Securities Co., said that many leaders of Japanese industry, who are watching the U.S. economy, feel that the U.S. has entered a definite plateau and may be in for a period of readjustment...
...from measures as complex as interest rates and demand-deposit turnovers to such personally felt statistics as the amount of personal income. When the U.S. economy surges forward or turns sharply back, the indicators usually agree -and so do the economists. Now. with the economy resting on the highest plateau in history, business experts are nervously indicator hopping in search of some clue to its next shift. To some, it is headed for another recession or is already in it; to others, business has rested and is about to move forward again...
...Plateau. Faithful to the classic principle of "divide and rule," Belgian colonial administrators carefully preserved the tribal system. The result was a painful anachronism: a people dominated by primitive loyalties suddenly presented with the tools of modern industrial society and the trappings of independence. To Moise Tshombe and his Katangans. no one in Leopoldville has any legitimate interest in gleaming little Elisabethville (pop. 177,000), the Congo's second largest city, where today supermarkets and the luxurious Hotel Leopold II rise from the cool, 5,000-ft.-high plateau. Nor to them does any "outsider" have any right...