Word: plateauing
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...sere, stunning high-plateau country of New Mexico, the movie describes an unhurried but sometimes harrowing year in the life of the ten-year-old Miguel (Pat Cardi), whose only real problem is growing up. Manly ambition has begun to stir in the boy's child body, and he aches to join the men of his family. Sheepherders for many generations, they spend every summer with their flocks in the green grazing lands of the Sangre de Cristo mountains. So Miguel waits, but not idly, for his time to come. And for the viewer, months shrink into moments full...
...reimposition of excise taxes in March tacked on another $25 or so, and tight money has kicked up the carrying charges for an average car loan by $24 a year. Says Ford Division Chief Donald Frey: "The willingness of the consumer to go into hock has reached a plateau...
...that originally found the bomb: Alvin, a 22-ft. deep-sea research ship whose bulbous shape resembles a puffed-up blowfish. Using its mechanical claw, Alvin was supposed to slip a cable around the bomb so that it could be towed by surface ship up the incline to a plateau 2,000 ft. below the sea's surface. Once it was on level ground, the bomb would be clamped in steel jaws and brought up to the 400-ft. level, where Navy divers would inspect the bomb. If it was intact and constituted no radiation danger...
Eons ago two long rivers cut parallel valleys down the sides of the southern Rhodesian plateau, leaving a broad ridge bisecting the country. Men began to call the broad ridge the High Veld, for it was 4000 to 5000 feet above sea level. On the High Veld was, and is, life, in a rich, tropical savanna graced with tall grass and scattered umbrella-shaped trees. Africans once proudly owned and farmed it, but a century ago they were gradually pushed down its steep sides by the white settlers...
...High Veld are the tobacco ranches, the major cities, and most of the country's wealth. Whoever controls that high land controls the destiny of the country, and whoever fails to control that plateau becomes a pauper. All other inequities in Rhoddesia result from the unequal distribution of land--the Europeans on the rich land and the Africans on the poor...