Word: plateauing
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...rainy, windy night, and none of the crew members had ever landed at Tri-State Airport, which is located on a tabletop plateau close to the Kentucky-West Virginia-Ohio border. At 7:42 p.m., as it was about to land, the plane clipped the tops of the trees west of Runway 11 and crashed into an Appalachian hillside with a full load of fuel. Onboard the plane were 37 players, 25 supporters, eight coaches and five crew members. None of them survived the fiery crash, the worst ever involving an American sports team. One of the victims was sportscaster...
...hits those big payoff notes, she doesn't do it just because she can; she does it because the song calls for it, because the big note she's holding is the only way to express what she's feeling. Higher Ground, unfortunately, is more of a low-lying plateau. It's an album of spiritually oriented "inspirational" songs--a hot genre right now, given LeAnn Rimes' hit collection of similarly themed material. Higher Ground, for its part, is a little too polite. Streisand's at her best on the track On Holy Ground: her voice scales the song, rising...
...endearing because they are everyday and unimportant. Bean takes Atkinson's comic mastery and confines it in a standard, sappy, Hollywood package, one with family values, emotional growth and other such sickening artifices. The film raises the appealing dumbness of Mr. Bean to an unwelcome and unintentional plateau of movie-dumbness with swirling layers of metadumbness that make for a confused and disappointing showing so dumb it smarts...
...Haiti, PIH and Haitian coworkers built a hospital in rural Cange. It serves more than 30,000 patients a year and is the premier medical facility in Haiti's central plateau, according to a PIH release...
...idea of how good this offense was consider that it had totaled 329 yards by halftime. That's generally a solid game's worth of yardage. By then, sophomore tailback Chris Menick had already reached the 100-yard plateau with 11 carries for 122 yards...