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Word: perfect (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Crimson broke the Crusader press andworked the ball inside, it was successful.Mitchell pumped in 17 first-half points, as hisstrong effort to fight for position was answeredby perfect passes resulting in layups...

Author: By Andy Fine, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Streaks | 12/7/1989 | See Source »

...Harvard men's squash team continued its perfect season with a 9-0 blanking of Trinity College yesterday in Hartford, while the Crimson women's team had a bit more trouble, coming from behind to defeat the hosts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two for the Road: Squash Teams Sweep | 12/7/1989 | See Source »

...score indicates that the Judges managed to take the Crimson out of its favorite fast-tempo style of play. "Perfect," thinks the Princeton mentor, who's reknowned for his ability to win games with inferior talent by slowing the tempo of the game down to a pace that wouldn't allow even Bob Hope to lose his breath...

Author: By M.d. Stankiewicz, | Title: And Now a Word From New Jersey | 12/5/1989 | See Source »

...antinoise system is perfect. The digital devices work well with repetitive noises, like the sounds of fans and turbines, but cannot stop random or unexpected noises. Analog systems fight low, random noises but do it by eliminating all low-frequency sounds, good or bad. And none of the antinoise devices currently on the market are very good at canceling high- pitched squeals and whistles. The problem: calculating antiwaves for sounds higher than middle C requires more computing power than today's chips can provide. For now, the most cost-effective way to block those tones is still to stick your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Fighting Noise with Antinoise | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

That sort of crudeness, recent events seem to be saying, is no longer imaginable. Thus agent Samson, with his perfect, idiomatic Berliner Deutsch and his deep knowledge of levels of murk and treachery on both sides of the Wall, is suddenly out of date. As are, an optimist dutifully believes, many thousands of border guards, KGB head beaters and assassins in the real world. Espionage will go on, of course, but presumably it will be of the corporate kind, waged among Japan, Korea and the European Community, which is apt to | include Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, what used to be called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spooked by a Crumbling Wall | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

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