Word: plateauing
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CHIANGMAI--Though the United States' military muscle in Thailand is concentrated in the dry northeastern plateau, bits and pieces of the war effort have spread into the mountains and plains of the North. At present the United States has three major electronic stations in this region and appears to be building a fourth. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is present in force as well...
...getting high, a brother once said to me. "I'm high, but not as high as I want to be. I want to be high, high on a Rocky Mountain plateau, planting the flag of a nation, our nation...
Bench is thinking every minute, however-about every batter in the box, every runner on base, every pitch in his battery mate's repertoire. It is his brains and his calm, confident manner that elevate him to a special plateau above the merely superior receivers. He knows better than any of them how to keep his hurlers mixing their pitches, and will not hesitate to cajole or even bully a reluctant hurler into following his commands. Once Maloney shook Bench off repeatedly on Johnny's call for a curve; he wanted to throw his patented fastball. Bench persisted...
...Last year 100,000 Frenchmen petitioned in vain to save Les Halles, the old central food market that Emile Zola described as "the belly of Paris." The market has now been moved to more functional quarters in the suburbs, near Orly airport, and a giant commercial center called the Plateau Beaubourg will rise in place of the old vegetable stands. Last month there were demonstrations against plans for an expressway along the Left Bank. "Today for the first time within memory," says Etienne Mallet, urban-affairs critic for the daily Le Monde, "people are going into the streets to protest...
...really much of an accomplishment for Seagren; he is co-holder with Sweden's Kjell Isaksson of the world's record of 18 ft. 4¼ in. set in El Paso, Texas, in May. But without top competition, Seagren explains, he can't reach the psychological plateau necessary to crack 18 ft. "In practice, even when I'm trying, I can never get over 16½ ft." Lack of competition will not be a problem this summer in Munich, however. Then the 6-ft., 175-lb. Seagren meets Isaksson in an aerial duel that very likely...