Word: plateauing
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Harvard fundraisers have a closet full of cliche metaphors to describe their financial goals and dilemmas and for the last few years "getting off the plateau" has been the fundraisers' key phrase...
Figures released this week show that Harvard development officers finally got off their plateau--in other words, they broke the $60 million mark in fundraising last year...
...evidence of a single moment of holocaust lay mutely within a low-slung white hangar at Los Rodeos Airport on a 2,073-ft.-high plateau nine miles from Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the island's major city. Row after row of dark wooden coffins filled the entire floor of the 150-ft. by 150-ft. building. Inside the gleaming, metal-lined boxes lay the charred and mostly still unidentified remains of 576 victims of the worst accident in aviation history. The limbs were fixed in what pathologists term the "pugilistic position"?arms extended upward and bent inward...
Harvard tallied only two goals in the third period, both by senior MacKenzie, who is fast approaching the 100 career points plateau. In the final 15 minutes, the Crimson attack shifted back into high gear...
...Fund raised $5.45 million last year, establishing a new record and surpassing its 1976 goal of $5.25 million. Between 1972 and 1975, the Fund worked towards a $5 million goal but failed to get off a $4.8 million plateau...