Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large nuclear power plant completed to date, the 60,000-kw. station built by Westinghouse Electric Corp. for AEC and the Duquesne Light Co. of Shippingport, Pa. (TIME, Nov. 25), is a major milestone for the U.S. -and a perfect example of the cost problem. Westinghouse's original cost estimate was $37.8 million. The plant will ultimately cost about $100 million. The Government paid 95% of the bill to get it operating; the power produced is so expensive that AEC also pays a heavy subsidy to make it marketable...
Though he followed James Joyce to Trieste in 1905 and remained there for nearly a half-century as an English professor, Stanislaus was the invisible man in Joyce's life. In this book, he emerges as the perfect foil. Joyce was mercurial, Stanislaus was phlegmatic. Joyce drank, Stanislaus was abstemious. Joyce was referred to as "Sunny Jim," Stanislaus as "Bile Beans." In the Dublin days with which this memoir begins and ends, one belief surmounted all brotherly differences -the belief that Jim had genius...
Bucyk made the score 2-1 early in the second period when Johnny, speeding across the Chicago blue line ahead on the pack, took a perfect Stasiuk pass and beat Hall on a 25-foot low angle shot into the far corner...
Another high-up source, who asked that his name not be used, liked the idea of three-symbolism but took a slightly different train of thought. "Eight is one less than nine, and nine in turn is three times three. Many of the ancients felt that nine was the perfect number," he explained, "and of course the three also ties in nicely with other suggestions...
...threats to our society from mental ills, broken homes, crime-ridden cities, imperfect governments and the even less perfect relationships among governments, are as pressing as any," he says. "And the humanities, which give quality to life and also to most of us our deepest understanding, must continue to be cultivated if we are to build and maintain a culture worth preserving, and produce people equipped in heart and mind to carry such large responsibility...