Word: plateauing
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...considerations of environment, the cost of education and overall economic pressures have finally caught up with the wartime and postwar baby boom. According to newly released federal statistics, the birth rate in the U.S. has declined to a level of 2.08 children per family-or just below the 2.1 plateau needed to achieve zero population growth. That marks a precipitous decline from the palmy days of 1957, when the birth rate stood at a staggering 3.8 children per family...
...expected them to be on another plateau," sixth man Rick Climan said yesterday. "But they certainly weren't. If this had been our fourth or fifth match instead of our first, it would have been a lot closer...
...French paleontologists, the limestone quarries on the Canjuers Plateau in the Alpine foothills northwest of Nice are a rich mine of prehistoric treasures. Once a warm, atoll-dotted sea, the beds recently have yielded a pterodactyl (the earliest flying reptile), the fossilized remains of an ancient seagoing crocodile and a 140 million-year-old fish so well preserved that its scales are still clearly visible. Now, in the course of routine stonecutting, a quarry owner named Louis Ghirardi has turned up an even more important prize: a superbly preserved fossil of a birdlike dinosaur, one of the smallest ever unearthed...
Returning to his lecture, he told us that, of course, some people were more highly developed in their "humanness" than others. The highest plateau of "humanness" is reached by the Spiritual Master, under whose guidance and instruction the community lives. The Spiritual Master defines terms and answers questions for his students. He loves his people. We asked the spiritualist exactly what "love" meant. "Love," he replied, "has been defined by the Spiritual Master as giving without asking anything in return...
...armored columns broke into Londonderry's Bogside and Creggan districts-which were known to Catholics as "Free Derry." Residents peered from behind blinds as troops with their faces blackened for camouflage in the darkness edged along the walls of the buildings, painstakingly scanning rooftops for snipers. On a plateau above the city, an I.R.A. siren began to wail-and continued until troops finally spotted its location almost three hours later and shut...