Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the Appalachians to the Rockies, the combines are churning through our land. Some of these $100,000 monsters can spew out $118,000 worth of soybeans in a day. The U.S. crops-the result of near perfect weather, rich land, technology and extraordinary enterprise-will be worth $61 billion this year (up 17% over last year's record of $52 billion...
...debate. Though no rejected names were divulged, the schism was apparently an ideological one: some institute members insisted that winners be confined to scientists engaged in basic research, while others felt that achievements in medical technology should also be considered. The choice of the CAT-scanner pioneers seemed a perfect compromise. Their work with abstract physics and mathematics resulted in a lifesaving machine...
...would have made one fatal mistake: our molecule would have been perfect. Given enough time, we would have figured out how to do this, nucleotides, enzymes and all, to make flawless, exact copies, but it would never have occurred to us, thinking as we do, that the thing had to be able to make errors...
...sets it down, then departs as slowly and silently as she arrived. Her master and his guest gamely go along with the pretense that the retainer is as efficient and unobtrusive as ever, and she, of course, is blissfully unaware of her klutziness. The result is an almost perfect example of the kind of purely visual humor of which Blake Edwards (The Pink Panther's keeper) is a modern master...
Harvard, however, regained control of the game quickly. At 11:58 tri-captain Julie Brynteson chipped a perfect curving airball to St. Louis, who slammed it into the right-hand side of the net, leaving Terrier goalie Margie McClure tasting the turf...