Word: plateaus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rewards come more slowly to swimmers than to, say, hockey players who can score goals and assists, or to basketball players who can talk about point totals or rebounds. A swimmer often goes through months, or even years, of plateaus where times just cease to improve and discouragement mounts. When a time suddenly drops, or a swimmer records a personal best, few people aside from parents or members of the same team congratulate them. To the uninitiated, a swimming meet holds all of the excitement of watching the snow fall. Consequently, only spectators who can appreciate fast splits...
...miles, from the Shatt-al-Arab in Iraq to the Musandam peninsula in Oman, a shallow, aquamarine trough of water glistens under the brutal sun-the Persian, or Arabian Gulf, depending on the side of the water on which one stands. On either shore, the Arabian and Iranian plateaus form some of the most uninviting landscape anywhere: endless vistas of desert and rock, so desolate that in one stretch in Saudi Arabia it is known as Rub'al Khali-the Empty Quarter...
...former U.S. official familiar with Iran finds the mountain hideout scheme more practical than it might sound, noting that there are several well-concealed plateaus in the remote mountains. But few experts can understand the contention of both Carter and Brown that the Tehran phase of the plan would have been easier than getting the assault team into position in the desert in the first place; both of them have refused to explain why they think so. Even some of the military planners concede that the complex mission violated an old Army rule called KISS, meaning "Keep it simple, stupid...