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...noticed, they didn't believe. Though stocks zigzagged but generally declined through September, Banker Mitchell announced on Oct. 15 that the "markets generally are now in a healthy condition." Irving Fisher, a Yale professor of political economy, declared that stock prices had reached "what looks like a permanently high plateau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash: Once Upon A Time in October . . . | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...lawyer's downtown Washington offices, with perfunctory appearances at Marine headquarters at the Pentagon, where he has a desk in the Office of Manpower and Policy Planning. For once, North is not working overtime. He has ten months to go before reaching the 20- year Marine retirement plateau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: True Belief Unhampered by Doubt | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

...Israel's population centers were within rifle range of Jordanian troops; today 40 miles of desert and a river separate Jordan from most Israelis. Before 1967, much of northern Israel was vulnerable to Syrian fire from the Golan Heights; today Israel controls, and indeed has formally annexed, that strategic plateau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East This Land Is Whose Land? | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

...standard for quality in artistic achievement and defy the aspiring artist in the audience to come up with something better. Awards should be a self-effacing event, a reward of past achievement and, more importantly, a challenge to those who have failed to reach the same high plateau...

Author: By Eric A. Morris, | Title: Sentimental Favoritism | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

Duncan, a 6-ft., 5-in. senior, has now scored in double figures in 18 consecutive games and needs just 42 points to reach the 1000-point plateau for his career...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spotlight | 2/24/1987 | See Source »

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