Word: plateauing
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...strategic importance of the Golan Heights to Israel or, for that matter, to Syria (see map). Rising to 7,297 ft. above sea level, the heights overlook the fertile Galilee Valley, one of the country's principal breadbaskets. On the Syrian side, they merge into a level plateau-ideal tank country-that stretches 50 miles to Damascus. In 1967 the Syrians used the heights to rain fire on the Israelis at the onset of the Six-Day War. Since Jerusalem's military occupation of the heights, some 6,000 Israelis in 31 settlements have joined...
There are three North Carolinas. The coastal east runs flat and sandy; the Blue Ridge west rises velvety and mountainous. Most populous is the middle Piedmont, a plateau of gentle undulations and pine forests. Scotch-Irish settlers swept onto the Piedmont in 1736. Six years later, two Helms brothers, George and Tillman, were farming on a plot deep in the colony. Before long, there were Helmses all over the place. On the solitary road from Wadesboro to Charlotte, just as the piny hills begin puckering up, grew Union County and the town of Monroe...
...aircraft, like the Il-86 transport, displaying a technological lag. And Ronald Reagan's new defense plans and action in lifting Jimmy Carter's "leprosy" policy (U.S. embassies were ordered not to help arms sellers) were a tonic that may nudge the $57 billion industry off a plateau, providing thousands of new jobs. America's air and space exports now amount to $18 billion a year, second only to agriculture at $41 billion...
...first excelling in the 100-fly, Jenny gradually branched out into the 200- and 400-IMs. and now she prefers backstroke to the other four strokes. "I guess I just change strokes whenever I hit a plateau," she laughs...
...feels, resembled a revue more than it did a unified show. "It had some good moments, but I was more concerned with the music than with the show as a whole." He would like also to write Broadway musicals one day. But he is taking it slowly, one plateau at a time, satisfied at each level. "Of course I'm going to make it," he smiles, "I already have! So what if they never heard of me in New York? I don't live in New York...