Word: peak
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...season progresses," newly hired cross country Coach Ed Sheehan says, "we'll bring people along. We just want to make sure we peak at the right time...
After six years of deregulation, however, the airlines are in no mood to let the Government begin writing schedules for them again. Says Delta Spokesman Jim Ewing: "This is upsetting as hell to us." Accordingly, Delta and Eastern put aside their differences and juggled their peak-hour operations in Atlanta, where the two carriers account for 85 scheduled arrivals between 7:55 and 8:30 a.m. Delta offered to move its arrivals up, to between 7:30 and 8:15, while Eastern said it would shift its back, to between 8:25 and 8:55. As the meetings proceeded through...
...elsewhere--may portend a trend. "There's a cycle to these things not unlike the cycle of general education," says Phyllis C. Keller, associate dean for academic planning. "The last round of revisions ... was in the mid to late 60s, when the size of the graduate programs reached their peak" and they could afford to specialize, Keller adds...
...computers have also been suffering from slower than expected sales, ruinous competition and an excess of copycat products. Among the victims are two industry giants. VisiCorp, marketer of VisiCalc, a pioneering business program, has shelved plans to create its own software, cut its work force to 72 from a peak of 250 and sold the licensing rights for its troubled VisiOn package to Control Data. Another former pacesetter, Digital Research, has backed away from its ambitious move into the retail market and is focusing again on programs that are built into computers...
...consequences of this sportive invasion are both visible and dispiriting. The main route up the Matterhorn has been worn as smooth as a dance floor by climbers and is currently closed to all but advanced mountaineers. Austria's Grossglockner, a formidable peak once noted for its splendid isolation, is attacked daily by up to 200 excursionists, most of them aided by ropes and guides. So many would-be conquerors cluster around the trail that the Austrian government has built wooden platforms on many peaks to increase standing space. At Königssee in southern West Germany, 800,000 tourists...