Word: plateauing
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WHEN a Mexican from the high, easygoing plateau of Mexico City arrives in New York, he gets the feeling of someone entering a great factory where powerful machines making a tremendous noise are producing pieces of something at terrific speed (what, nobody knows). He sees trains up in the air, trains on the level and trains underground, all running under rigid schedule...
...whole nature is out of tune with his mistaken calling, a personality so split that the sharp edges are bound to stab anyone brought too close. As for Agustin, he can be seen in any land in any time, sure that he has won his way to a plateau of peace, only to discover that life does not respect bankrolls, and that it can set its traps in the heart even for the middleaged...
...Edwards Plateau section, which is west of San Antonio, supplies are adequate for its small cities and "range-stock economy," and additional projects can be financed by state or municipal funds...
...green wave of Brazil's Mato Grosso Plateau closed for the last time over the head of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, the famed British explorer. What happened to him then? One guess is as good as another, and the Sunday supplements have made them all. Was he killed by a wild animal? No evidence of that. Is he still held captive in the deep interior by Indians who believe him a god? So one old Indian woman declared a score of years ago. Or was he really murdered by the Kalapalos chieftain who confessed the crime (TIME, April...
Since then, the Nationalists have managed to cling to a piece of Burmese real estate the size of West Virginia. One million primitive Burmans are now ruled by five Nationalist generals, loyal to Li Mi. The National Salvation Army, says its commander, has its headquarters on the forested plateau east of the Salween River, where the Burmese, Siamese and Indo-Chinese borders meet. It maintains an air strip, has reliable radio contacts with the government of Formosa...