Word: perfectly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think losing three or four pounds a week is excessive. Says Dr. George Bray of the University of Southern California: "That's not a sustainable rate of healthy weight loss." Everyone applauds the diet's psychological appeal, however. Declares Katahn: "It motivates us to be as close to perfect as we can for three weeks." Agrees Housewife Pam Kennedy, who has shed 11 lbs. and one size since February: "For three weeks you can do anything...
...each year--for diesel- and gasoline-powered machinery, for petroleum-based fertilizers and pesticides, and for pumps used to lift and distribute irrigation water. With spring planting on the way, the timing of the oil-price collapse is, from the farmer's point of view, well- nigh perfect. Diesel-fuel prices have dropped so far this year by anywhere from 23 cents to 30 cents per gal., to as low as 50 cents. Costs are expected to come down for the farmer's favorite fertilizer, anhydrous ammonia, to $165 per ton from last year...
...Ages, have been set at social events and have had the rambling, episodic quality of witty but wayward conversation. Not surprisingly, a fiftyish college professor who fancies himself capable of shaping an ideal evening is at the center of Gurney's sprightly new puzzle box of a play, The Perfect Party...
Gurney equates staging the unachievable perfect party with creating theater itself--assembling arbitrarily chosen people in an arbitrarily chosen place to act out an externally imposed story. The play closes in a Shavian debate about a larger theme that resonates through all of Gurney's work: America, he says, has lost its sense of absolutes and faces the painful task of living with ambiguity. Striving for perfection in any endeavor signals an inability to cope with an unsettled world. This pastiche, conveying more than a casual cocktail notion, could easily be pretentious. Gurney makes...
...tech weapons. With so-called smart weapons like the harm, which homes in on radar signals to find its way to the target, "you get a higher probability of kill," says Donald Hicks, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. "But you have to recognize that nothing is perfect." Such smart weapons are designed to cripple a radar dish, not destroy an entire missile site...