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Word: perfectly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is a perfect case that should be considered by the Citizen Review Board," said City Councilor David E. Sullivan, referring to a committee created last spring to review city policepractices but still without staff or budget...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Iranian Student Charges Cambridge City Police Officer With Harrassment | 12/2/1986 | See Source »

...always done her overbearing best to be a huge success, Media Diva Grace Jones decided to go for maximum splash when it came time to make the video for her new song, I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect for You). In the $250,000 video out this week, she gets her lanky legs waxed, dunks herself in a milk bath and even undergoes pseudo psychoanalysis with Guru Timothy Leary. Of course, Jones has always had a sizable appetite for fashion overstatement, so she did not shrink from slipping her 5-ft. 9-in. frame into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 1, 1986 | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

Looking reflectively down the length of the bridge, he said, "I have almost a perfect lack of confidence in those state fellows. If I were to pray, I would pray that the bridge be spared the attentions of engineers, and of arsonists -- equal dangers with very little difference. This bridge is a masterpiece. You can't help but be stirred by the workmanship that went into it. It should be saved. When it's gone, it's gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Hampshire: a Rare Span | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

...March, when they head home for Britain, T & D, as the English press calls them, will be as familiar to many Americans as AT&T. To those who watched the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, they already are. Scoring two perfect sixes, they won the gold medal and virtually reconstructed that curious hybrid -- half sport, half art -- called ice dancing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sensuality and Ice Magic: Torvill and Dean | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

Although there were no political upheavals during her absence, some observers had wondered before her departure whether Aquino would return as President. During recent weeks the Philippines has been rife with talk of rebellion, and the perfect time for a military coup seemed to be when she was away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Fighting Back | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

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