Word: plateauing
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...borrow enough from Grand Junction banks to buy a jeep and rent a bulldozer. Then he built a rough twelve-mile road into his property and started to mine uranium ore. He soon proved up 300,000 tons of uranium ore, one of the richest finds in the Colorado plateau...
Payoff in Manhattan. Last week Prospector Pick went to Manhattan to see about selling his mine. There he sat down with Floyd Odium of Atlas Corp., who has been busily scouting the Colorado plateau, picking up uranium claims in hopes of putting together a major new combine of uranium companies. After several days of dickering, Pick sold his mine to Odium's Atlas Corp. for a whopping...
...winter, three of hell." The land is a windswept steppe, almost a desert. "The most magnificent monotony in the whole world," says Sacheverell Sitwell. It has been said of Spain that it seems more a part of Africa than of Europe. This is even more true of the Castilian plateau than of the green and garrulous south...
...season of peaks, at least came off as an agreeable plateau. And beyond a nice steady flow of the respectable, the more-than-conventional, the slightly-better-than-average, there was a constant sense of small jets and gushes and freshets, and of a main flow fed by tributary streams. Perhaps more than anything else, 1953-54 was the season when off-Broadway began breathing, however faintly, down Broadway's neck. On lower Second Avenue, without having arisen out of anybody else's ashes, there emerged the Phoenix Theater. Whatever its shortcomings, it gave Manhattan its first really...
...grazing below icy peaks in meadows of wild orchids, and finds the barley harvests lying like some sort of killed light in the thin blue air. Wild flowers splurge -in summer the whole Himalaya seems a giant's rock garden. Down from the mountains to the high plateau: yak tents like black tarantulas on the golden plain; cold Mongol faces that, breaking suddenly into gentle smiles, seem like rocks come to life; skin coracles for crossing the rivers ; and never a wheel to be found except the prayer wheels spinning windily in the wayside shrines...