Word: near-perfect
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...Pride, which has seven nationally ranked wrestlers in its lineup, faltered at the start but closed with near-perfect form to achieve its commanding victory...
...With its 20 electoral votes, Ohio is one of three states--along with Pennsylvania (21 votes) and Florida (27)--that commanders in both campaigns believe will determine the outcome. Win two of the three, they say privately, and the race is over. Ohio has special symbolic significance for its near-perfect record for picking winners in presidential elections. The campaigns and their allies have spent $72 million bombarding Ohio voters with political ads that have been shown some 82,000 times on television since March more than in any other state, according to figures by the nonpartisan Campaign Media Analysis...
Unfortunately, in order to do something different from last year’s near-perfect squad, the only thing the 2003-2004 edition could do was lose...
Horan, an economics concentrator in Leverett House, was accustomed to success before arriving on campus. She attended a competitive private school just outside of Boston where she achieved a near-perfect score on her SAT and maintained stellar grades, all the while balancing responsibilities as editor of the yearbook and captain of the ski team, leading admissions tours and running a community service organization. For Horan, success was found in a simple formula. As she explains, “I went to school. I did x, y and z. Then I repeated...
...what separates their near-perfect season from any other successful one is the utterly dominating fashion in which they...