Word: plateaus
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Then, a breakthrough. Crime rates started falling. Apart from a few bumps and plateaus, they continued to drop through boom times and recessions, through peace and war, under Democrats and Republicans. Last year's murder rate may be the lowest since the mid-1960s, according to preliminary statistics released by the Department of Justice. The human dimension of this turnaround is extraordinary: had the rate remained unchanged, an additional 170,000 Americans would have been murdered in the years since 1992. That's more U.S. lives than were lost in combat in World War I, Korea, Vietnam and Iraq - combined...
Brain Age Games Patients at Duke's mental-fitness lab give high marks to these $20 game sets for Nintendo DS but find their improvement quickly plateaus in such activities as unscrambling letters or counting currency...