Word: plateauing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...marks against the Elis, Co-Captain Beth Wambach did enter the record books at 14:59 of the second half. The senior guard's three-pointer put Harvard up, 48-36, and gave Wambach 1001 career points, making her only the fifth player in Harvard history to reach that plateau. Wambach needs only 32 points to surpass Elaine Holpuch as the fourth player on Harvard's all-time scoring list...
BABOON RESERVE, Bronx Zoo. Nubian ibex, rock hyraxes, assorted waterfowl and two troops of threatened gelada baboons inhabit this new 5.5-acre exhibit, which re-creates the high-altitude grasslands of Ethiopia's Amhara Plateau...
Greensboro (pop. 195,495), a prosperous town set on North Carolina's lush Piedmont Plateau, has been a national bellwether of race relations. It was not only the birthplace of the sit-in movement but also the site of one of the most horrifying episodes of racial violence since the 1960s. In 1979 five Communist Workers Party members taking part in a "Death to the Klan" rally were gunned down in the street by American Nazis and members of the Ku Klux Klan...
...ritual, Publishers Weekly has tallied up the book figures for the year past, and the numbers make it look like a very good vintage. Sales in the U.S. jumped 11%, to $14.7 billion. Four novels sold more than 1 million ; copies each, and 63 passed the 100,000-copy plateau, far eclipsing the old record of 52 in 1987. But amid all this dusty bookkeeping lurks some astonishing information...
...again. I feel sorry for someone who doesn't know this for a year or two and ends up with footprints on his forehead." For a newcomer in movies, he says, "the train pulls out at 12:01. You're on it or you're not. The greatest ^ plateau in Hollywood is when they hold the train for you." This is scrappy, Irish-Catholic Long Island talking. In his own voice. Acerbic, confident, knowing that Hollywood stardom is waiting, and that he has caught the train...