Word: plateauing
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...views the rebel Martinez as a tragic figure, lost "in the ashes of the old consuming conflict, in the pathos of learned agonies spent in a footless cause." The author also brings rich life to less dramatic episodes: his long, detailed accounts of the journeys over trackless desert and plateau develop a hypnotic rhythm of their own. Even minor ecclesiastical skirmishes are brilliantly employed-Lamy's exasperation with Vatican bureaucracy simultaneously reveals his ego and his humility: "The Roman piano, piano does not suit the bishop of the Navajos...
Finally, in Harvard individual football stats, Neal Miller became the 11th Crimson player to reach the 1000-yard career rushing plateau last Saturday. House Football Standings W L T Kirkland 4 0 1 Winthrop 3 1 1 Mather 2 1 2 Eliot 3 2 0 Quincy 3 2 0 Leverett 1 4 0 Lowell...
...work week today seems to have reached a plateau, and it is unlikely that it will be reduced substantially in the next decade. But in the past 20 years or so, there have been four striking transformations in the character of work and the work force...
...business because of trees on the left, and if you have a hook, forget it. Even with a well-placed drive, you've got to burn your second shot-usually a one-or two-iron for me. You have to drop the ball right on top of the plateau on the green or face a 45-ft., nerve-tester approach putt that will break in two directions...
Science is not on a plateau, and we will not be able to outlaw new theoretical methods of annihilation. I think though that we do need a more effective code of arms limitation. We need a better way of monitoring [the other side] to reassure other nations of the limitation on destruction. That can be carried out if we can get the Soviets to agree to on-site inspection...