Word: plateauing
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...central plateau of Mexico lies a dusty town of small adobe houses scattered between a new dirt road and some railroad tracks. If the volcanoes, Popacatepetl and Ixtaccihuatl, are not too distant, then maybe you've arrived in Vicente Guerrero...
Then the coffin is borne through the mud and past the grunting of the pigs up to a plateau where the graveyard lies above the dark hills and valleys. The grave was dug the day before among the similar small graves which comprise more than half of the graveyard. Don Faustino lowers the casket, pours holy water over it in the shape of the cross, covers it with planks and quickly, with the help of other men, shovels the dirt back...
Medical students enjoy an enviable position. They have all finished their pre-med training and its fabled cut-throat competition, to reach a plateau where, barring failure, they are assured internships and M.D.s. Any attempt to rank them at this level is meaningless; it only introduces the unnatural and ugly clamor for grades...
...problem is certainly not only one of keeping up with the latest inventions. There is the constant pressure to struggle for a few extra dollars of income, even though after a certain plateau is reached money has little bearing on happiness. And once the money is earned there comes the burning desire to find new ways to spend it and eke just a little more pleasure out of it. These and other things keep us on a treadmill, expending not only endless amounts of oil and gas on unsatisfying enterprise, but wasting our very humanity itself...
Again masterfully increasing tempo with first-encore "Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay," Sha swings into "Hound Dog" to boost both the audience and the band to a trembling plateau of anticipation for the show's climax. And then, with a final burst of energy, a sweating and breathless Sha erupts into "Great Balls of Fire" for an intense and frenzied culmination of the crescendo...