Word: plateauing
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...college graduation in 1912, I traveled to Karlsbad In Austria to visit him. We lunched together in a small restaurant. I noted a fly walking on the tablecloth and attempted to swat it. He turned to me and said quietly, "Let the fly enjoy its promenade on the high plateau." How typical of his considerate attitude toward all things great and small...
When he finally reached Turkey, he stayed in Anatolia for a year with a vague sense of homecoming, although his severed past lay lower, near the coast. In Ankara, he was striken by the bleakness of the surrounding plateau, a feeling recalled by some lines in his journal...
...environmental groups are wary of a clause in the amendment permitting land use for "residential and other community purposes." The plateau that the Indians want is, according to Sierra Club Lobbyist Jeffrey Ingram, "a fantastic piece of real estate." He envisions vacation condominiums on the reservation. William Byler of the Association on American Indian Affairs scoffs at this. He points out that tribal leaders have insisted they will allow no unsightly development and that the bill forbids any but "traditional use." Says he: "To suggest that the tribe will hand it over to developers is a slanderous attack...
...show a remarkable match, and the shelves, or underwater plateaus, extending from each of the continents into the Atlantic form a near perfect fit, like adjacent pieces in a jigsaw puzzle. One piece of the puzzle, however, seemed to be missing. There was a deep indentation in the Mozambique plateau off Durban, South Africa, but no proof of a corresponding continental projection from South America. Last month it was announced that the missing land mass had been found; it is a fingerlike extension of the Falkland plateau, extending eastward from the Falkland Islands to a point 1,600 miles from...
From examination of fossils in the sediment cores found just above the bedrock, the geologists deduced that 150 to 200 million years ago, the Falkland plateau was dry land in a climate similar to that of the Mediterranean today. That evidence fitted in with earlier suggestions by other geologists that there had once been an inland sea in Gondwanaland similar to the Mediterranean and bounded by what are now South America, Africa and Antarctica. Then, as the continents began to separate, the area round the ancient sea gradually sank, reached its present depth about 80 million years ago, and remained...