Word: perfective
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Health experts believe that screening tests, approved earlier this year, will help stop the spread of AIDS through contaminated blood (142 Americans have contracted AIDS from blood transfusions). The tests, recently put into use at blood banks throughout the U.S., are less than perfect, however. Researchers fear that some infected blood samples could slip through undetected. Says Curran: "We don't know how big a problem that...
...would have been had he gone to his ranch in California to chop wood. Hoarseness from the tube in his throat? He certainly sounded hoarse when he appeared on TV with the President of China, but now, at ease in his office, it would take an ear with perfect pitch to detect a problem. If anything, he seems more alert than he normally is. His eyes are concerned and clear. His answers are less rambling and nostalgic than usual. He obviously wants to dispel any suspicion of weakness or disability...
...junior right-hander tossed a complete-game one-hitter in a 3-1 win to kick off a Crimson sweep of Cornell at O’Donnell Field Saturday and move Harvard’s Ivy record to a perfect...
Herrmann—who less than a week earlier missed a start due to tendonitis in his throwing elbow—was perfect through five and allowed only one run and two base runners while striking out six over seven innings to erase any doubts about his health...
With Herrmann still perfect and the seven-inning game creeping towards its conclusion, his teammates—as tradition dictates—began to avoid him in the dugout. Well, except his roommate Chris Mackey...