Word: perfective
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...patience for cant or showboaters. Budding editors had no better mentor. Elson once said the process of editing was the opposite of the American jurisprudence system, in that every writer was guilty until proved innocent. He had good advice for writers as well. "Never let the search for the perfect get in the way of the perfectly good," he would say as deadline approached. Then he would take the story from you, guilty until proved innocent...
...businesses and lower tax revenues for the government. This belt-tightening means fewer car sales and thus fewer jobs for car-part makers. It means less government spending on infrastructure and other public services, including economic development. The sum effect is less available work for job seekers--a perfect vicious circle. For a well-educated job loser like Whitfield, it can mean a permanent drop in earning power and standard of living--a reversal of the American Dream...
...perfect jobs for the recession - and after...
...attract more customers, the Talbots unwittingly launched a catalog business in 1948 by sending a flyer to 3,000 people whose names they had culled from a New Yorker subscription list. Their timing was perfect. As shopping habits shifted, Talbots became a staple for suburban women...
...movies, no family is perfect. We get a hint of that as Steve leaves Kate to sleep in a separate bedroom, and then Jenn tiptoes in to have sex with him. (When Kate breaks up the trust, Jenn says, "Sorry, Dad.") Yes, the Joneses have a secret; and no, they're not vampires, exactly. Professional leeches is more like...