Word: plateauing
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Sunlight broke through the dark, rolling thunderheads last week as Jimmy Carter's presidential motorcade headed toward a desolate plateau near Golden, Colo. He was on his way to deliver a speech marking Sun Day. Then, suddenly, it began to rain and hail...
Strength grows, though, at the 800-meter plateau with the return of last year's Heptagonal champ, John Chafee, and consistently strong Scott Dolson...
...bomber project: all these riddled industry profits and caused huge layoffs in Southern California, Seattle and other aerospace centers. Currently, the industry is making an upward thrust, fueled by fat military and commercial order backlogs. But the present climb is expected to level off at a comfortable plateau, and the old boom-or-bust days may be gone forever. Says a California analyst: "For the next ten years there will be no thrills. But there will be no chills, either...
...monitored four IHS areas. The GAO report findings state, "Between 1973 and 1976, in four of 12 IHS areas, 3406 sterilizations were performed on Native women. Of these, 3000 were between the ages of 13 and 44." The decline of Native Americans populations has barely reached a plateau, after 500 years of colonial massacres; we are not the people overpopulating this continent. By sterilizing our women, the IHS decreases the chance that our culture will continue. Our children have a right to live...
...University remained on that just under $60 million plateau for five years, and financial officers say they are encouraged by the recent upturn in both the national economy and Harvard alumni's donations...