Word: perfective
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...essentially opening up the Great Midlife Lemonade Stand, taking the bitter taste of aging and making it sweet, satisfying. This is both noble and shrewd. Women like helping other women, and as it happens, just as women reach their moment of self-doubt, they also ripen into the perfect market segment. "You can make a ton of money," agrees Shellenbarger. "Let's face it. These women with their fat pocketbooks approach the age of 50 and lose their inhibitions. Imagine that! That's a lot of spending. The other thing that research shows will open people's pocketbooks is sadness...
...their appreciation, Waters and company paid the entertainers in booze—“which was perfect,” Nick says, “because that’s what we would have spent the money on anyway...
...spat with the AAP is entirely absent from “Inside the Halo and Beyond,” her diary (written partially ex-post facto) from the last half of 1998. Indeed, that year of her life will forever be defined by a “perfect midsummer day”—July 21, 1998—which launched a long nightmare from which Kumin is still emerging...
This is not a perfect solution, and there are inherent dangers in a non-governmental army. Accountable to no one and fighting for top dollar, mercenary armies can surrender their loyalties to the highest bidder. But recognize that it is in their best interests to be on the side of states rather than against them; if they do a poor job, they will get fired; if they turn against us, we will turn against them. But more importantly, recognize that we have run out of ideas, and perhaps it is only an extreme solution that will solve an extreme problem...
...their customers and partners in sex play for the evening, are in faded t-shirts and jeans, their stomachs round from years of beer. The women are polished perfect, with just a few spider veins and tired, red eyes betraying their mortality...