Word: flawless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even in health-conscious California the real cultists represent only a small minority of residents (most Californians worry more about housing prices, rising taxes, gangs and traffic congestion than about the contours of their deltoids). Yet the body addicts have pushed the pursuit of the flawless physique to its furthest extremes, etching forever the notion of California narcissism upon the psyche of the nation. For these fitness fanatics the goal is not just to look good but to look perfect. And if perfection cannot be achieved through exercise, to resort to surgery to attain...
...American premiere of an Arthur Miller play does not come to Harvard every weekend. Even if the production were not nearly flawless, The Man Who Had All the Luck would still be a must...
Your resume was impressive. The job interview was flawless. You seemed to have that tempting new position in your pocket -- but you didn...
...savviness and invincibility. But a recent chain of misfortunes, miscues and poor managerial decisions is prompting a reappraisal of Amex's sterling reputation. Acquisitions that looked like masterstrokes only a few years ago are now facing criticism; the managerial decision-making process that was once considered fine-tuned and flawless is suddenly being second-guessed; businesses that were thought to be impervious to economic downturns have proved to be vulnerable after all. In short, American Express is showing that it has chinks in its armor...
Granted, as less vitriolic modern historiography makes clear, Columbus was not the gem of the ocean, the flawless hero of so many earlier hagiographies. But was the historic figure whose name was adopted by a South American republic, the District of Columbia and countless other places and entities, really worse than Hitler or Attila the Hun? What in the New World is going on around here...