Word: perfective
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...miss a playoff game for his beloved Philadelphia Phillies, who have won just a single World Series title in their 126-year existence. So Reynolds didn't hesitate to shell out $80 for his ticket earlier this month to watch his team pound the Los Angeles Dodgers on a perfect October afternoon at Citizens Bank Park...
...eight years before. The new owners' plan is to revert to the original Mambo recipe of humor, social commentary and art, while stirring in a fistful of contemporary spices. Co-owner Angus Kingsmill told TIME: "We believe Mambo has massive global potential. It would take almost a perfect storm to stop us." In the shape of the meltdown on financial markets, something like that storm is rattling the windows of businesses across the world. Preparing for Mambo's November relaunch, Kingsmill concedes that securing capital has been hard lately. "But we're still growing Mambo against all the economic trends...
...prevent the other side from doing its worst, although each side assumes a level of villainy from the other that is probably more a product of final-campaign-week neurosis than reality. Still, each campaign is obsessed that the other will "steal" the election. In this paranoia, they are perfect dancing partners, since their worst fears are ironically codependent...
...Maybe life, as it unfolds, will perfect it.' ALEJANDRO COLANZI, of Bolivia's National Unity Party, on the nation's newly ratified draft constitution, which grants rights to the indigenous population but faces opposition from provincial leaders...
...true that the pieces address privilege. It is also true that race is discussed primarily. Although this does not equal a perfect packet, the committee had hoped to use race as a “lens” for addressing these other issues. Unfortunately, it is glaringly obvious that Waite missed this point. He writes, “the freshmen were exposed to a poetic call for revolution and thereby were informed of the existence of a ‘war between races.’” The poem he references actually ends with the author?...