Word: plateauing
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...hundred years ago last week, about 500 Irish and Chinese laborers, politicians, railroad men and prostitutes gathered on a lonely plateau at Promontory, Utah, to witness a momentous event: the joining of East to West by the first transcontinental railroad. Central Pacific President Leland Stanford picked up a silver sledgehammer, swung at. the final spike and missed. Union Pacific Vice President Thomas Durant took his turn-and also missed. Finally, a Union Pacific laborer stepped up and drove it home. A waiting telegrapher tapped out the message: "The Pacific railroad is completed...
...pioneer in the U.S. space effort, is blunter. "The space program is the first time we could keep the cutting edge of science and technology sharp without having a major war," he declares. "Goddammit, does it take another war to get technology up to a higher plateau...
...River Gorge, a 15-mile stretch of primeval beauty bordered by 600-ft. limestone cliffs, is known as the Grand Canyon of the East. Daniel Boone is supposed to have holed up there, and the surrounding national forest bears his name. Carved out of the Cumberland Plateau, it is an almost otherworldly wonderland of castle rock formations, soaring pinnacles and natural arches. It is also a refuge for some 50 species of mammals and 275 species of birds...
...people. This was his most significant accomplishment. It is what made it possible for Kennedy and Johnson to move forward. If one of the right-wing group had been elected, Kennedy and Johnson would have had to spend a lot of time recouping. With the Eisenhower years as a plateau and a period of consolidation, it was possible to move forward in the Kennedy-Johnson years...
Washington is certainly, if belatedly, making the effort-and that effort is beginning to pinch the public. The 10% tax surcharge shows signs of reducing some consumer demands; retail sales have rolled along on a plateau since last fall. The federal budget is expected to shift from last year's deficit of $25 billion to a small surplus in fiscal 1969, resulting in far less Government-generated economic demand. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve Board has moved to tighten the money supply. After growing at an annual rate of more than 7% in late 1968, the supply rose...