Word: plateauing
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...first, the roads were good. Domingo purred along at a comfortable 70 m.p.h. Before reaching Caracas - about 6,000 miles away - the field had to grind up the mighty Andes, race across Bolivia's lofty Altiplano (plateau), span desert land, plunge through an equatorial jungle. For the next 18 days, nobody heard much about the fat undertaker...
...many years in a restless world and may find that the close contacts between the nations serve to emphasize friction rather than to advance the unity of men. A crisis in this sort of world may not be a turning point in the fever chart but a long sustained plateau of tension...
...common effort to keep humanity from rolling off the plateau over a precipice, said Sir Oliver: "You may rest secure that Britain will not fail you and in the back of the mind of every Briton there is firm and steadfast belief that you will not fail...
Last week the Chinese dollar paused momentarily in its flight, to level off on a plateau of $380 million to one U.S. dollar. Desperate Chinese hoped that it might hold steady until military victories and U.S. aid could brace it. But the housewives feared to look ahead more than a single day. In busy Seymour Street market they shuffled from stall to stall, picking over fish and vegetables and hopelessly asking prices. One squat, broad-faced woman, a tram conductor's wife, finally bought two cracked eggs for her family of five. What if prices went even higher...
Northeast of Anapolis, pioneers are opening up the great, mile-high, 1,800,000-acre chapada dos veadeiros (plateau of the deer hunters). In all Brazil, its land is best for wheat, and wheat is what Brazil needs. Last year the country spent $135 million on imports. Much of the chapada is forested, but the pioneers are hard at work, burning off the underbrush and rooting out stumps. When a flame sears or an ax slips, friends will give the injured what fumbling first aid they can. If that is not enough, the patient is packed into a truck...