Word: plateauing
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...Harvard nor can compete with their peers. Mr. Lat suggests that these students should all get on their knees and thank fair Harvard for holding them to a lower standard than everyone else and he ignores the tremendous hurdles that Blacks and Latinos must overcome to reach this lofty plateau...
...crime down 3%. Crime overall was down 4%. But the national psyche doesn't make seasonal adjustments. Whatever the latest backlash owes to hype and hysteria, it is also a response to a festering problem. Most crime is down or leveling out, but only when compared with the high plateau it reached in the late '70s. It's hard to take comfort from the news that the murder rate, though lower than three years ago, is twice what it was three decades ago. And over the past 10 years the incidence of violent crime generally has risen more than...
...course all this is madness. America's future is bright (if we can only teach Johnny to read, and get him to stop carrying that gun), but that doesn't mean the stock market will keep going up. Stocks may have reached "a permanently high plateau," to borrow Professor Irving Fisher's famous phrase from 1929, but that wasn't true when he uttered it, and it's probably not true now -- although this is certainly...
...revolution and the radical new notion that one's helpmeet in life should, in addition to everything else, possess erotic skills formerly known to few other than to gigolos and ladies of the night. Now anxious spouses were forced to master concepts such as the G spot and "excitation plateau." Yet no one thought it odd that the person who mowed your lawn or folded your shirts was expected to provide orgasmic experiences at night...
...skill has already grown dramatically,"Locker said. "And it will continue to do so untilwe reach the plateau of the top-20 teams in thecountry...