Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...discourse, as of any symphonic composition, lies not in the units but in the pauses, the pacing and the phrasing. Punctuation is the way one bats one's eyes, lowers one's voice or blushes demurely. Punctuation adjusts the tone and color and volume till the feeling comes into perfect focus: not disgust exactly, but distaste; not lust, or like, but love...
...perfect weather and stunning sights are not enough to explain this popularity, there may be another reason for the tourism explosion. "Let's not be coy," says Briton Charles Stanford, who is traveling through the country in a camper with his wife. "The exchange rate has a lot to do with it. Every week we're here, the lira improves." Three years ago the Turkish lira was about 600 to the dollar; today it hovers around 1,300. Pamela Douglas, 24, a Los Angeles student, has been sharing rooms at boardinghouses for 2,500 liras a night. At the current...
...daughter of a poor migrant worker family in McAllen, Texas, Rodriguez will become her family's first college graduate today. Rodriguez has five natural brothers and sisters, as well as seven step-brothers and sisters. She is a perfect example of the Harvard success story--disadvantaged kid makes good in the Ivies. But the going has not always been smooth...
America has always had a fascination with the salesman and with good reason. He is the one member of society whose efforts are perfectly tailored to the society around him. The salesman's interactions run the gamut from complete alienation to perfect compatibility, as quickly as a turn-down becomes a sale. He is a modern social prototype as profound as the warrior of antiquity...
Henderson dashed toward left-center, backhanded the ball at his shoetops and recovered for a perfect throw to catcher Joel Skinner that nailed Burks...