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Word: perfection (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lind scored seconds later, keeping intact Harvard's perfect record on power play opportunities, and Yale sent Bingham back in for the rest of the game...

Author: By Mia Kang, | Title: Icewomen March Over Elis, 9-2; Power-play Goals Seal Victory | 2/16/1989 | See Source »

...came home and informed my mother that it was a matter of life and death that I went to the mall and found the perfect Valentine's gift. I didn't tell Mom why I needed the present, and she graciously pretended not to know...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Of Valentine's Day and Cooties | 2/14/1989 | See Source »

Then, as the stores were about to close, I spotted it. A tiny heart-shaped address book, no more than three inches high. It was perfect--not too small, not too big, not too showy, not too insignificant, and it was only $3 (about two weeks' allowance...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Of Valentine's Day and Cooties | 2/14/1989 | See Source »

...what FTD would want us to think of as the perfect Valentine's Day, but what the heck do they know. Roses may wilt, but address books--and fourth grade--are forever...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Of Valentine's Day and Cooties | 2/14/1989 | See Source »

Convinced that members of the U.S. Congress are overpaid at $89,500 a year? Irate that their salaries may go up to $135,000? Then Mikhail Gorbachev may be your idea of the perfect public servant. For the first time, the Soviet leader's pay has been revealed: according to Vitali Korotich, editor of the weekly Ogonyok, Gorbachev receives 1,500 rubles a month, or $30,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Bringing Home The Borscht | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

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