Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even the most intrusive measures will not be foolproof: there is no verification catholicon. But perfect verification is as illusory as it is unnecessary. National security requires only that governments be able to detect militarily significant violations early enough so that they can do something about them. "Adequate" verification is indispensable to reducing the risks. Recent reports from the negotiating tables suggest that both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. have awakened to that fact...
...born in Hawkinsville, Ga., in 1946, then moved with his family to a new | neighborhood in Huntington, Long Island, popular with young airline captains and their families. "If there were any problems, Jeff and I certainly felt isolated from them," says a boyhood chum, Martin Rowley. "Ours were perfect childhoods." Hazelwood's father was a stickler for discipline who permitted no drinking in his home...
...city that remakes itself every four years is perfect for a Gatsbyesque creature like Spence, with a past he is unwilling to talk about and a present that consists of convincing mysterious clients that he has plenty of influence. Spence would probably still be throwing dinners at the posh Four Seasons Hotel for people like Donald Gregg, U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, as he did last spring, if the police had not raided a male prostitution service in February. The raid turned up thousands of dollars' worth of credit-card receipts signed by Spence. Though he was not the only...
Dogs, who are generally fairly stupid animals, will play this game for hours. Reading Sheila Kohler's first novel, The Perfect Place, is a lot like being the dog in this game...
...game with the dog depends on the stupidity of the animal and also its desire for the reward. In The Perfect Place, the reader is too smart to waste the time, and the reward--the final story--is so unworthy that it is unlikely many readers will continue to play the game for long...