Word: zenith
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...Runners whom renown outran / And the name died before the man.” By claiming Aaliyah after a mere 22 years on earth, death may have won a small victory. Ironically, though, by asserting itself overzealously and taking Aaliyah when her talent and popularity were at a zenith, it may very well have surrendered her to its archenemy and eternal competitor immortality...
...When they began their four-year course at the technical college here in Le Locle in 1999, their class contained 17 students. Seven are left today. They've spent the past year hand-tooling and assembling the 92 minuscule components that make up a Zenith Marine Chronometer - a complex piece of micro-engineering that is as technically obsolete as the manual typewriter. Yet nowadays, that kind of obsolescence fetches premium prices. "The boom today is in complicated mechanical watches for the luxury market," Antoniotti explains...
...they are coming back. Andy Pesky, president of the premium travel agency ProTravel-The Zenith Group, calls them "the hottest thing out there." While many mid-20th century middle-class folk might have felt uncomfortable in such swanky settings, today, observes Bjorn Hanson of PricewaterhouseCoopers, "everyone has moved up in economic status in their own mind, so everyone feels entitled--even feels that a luxury vacation is a birthright...
...There used to be a feature in the old Spy Magazine - a feature I used to occasionally write - called "Downhill from Here." The idea was that it was a portrait of some celebrity or public figure just a smidgen past the zenith of their fame, and how they were just about to start their descent. Bill Clinton is slaloming downhill fast; Alan Greenspan is about to start slouching toward the valley...
...month later, he reached a zenith of sorts...