Word: perfectly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the trustees of Dartmouth College installed David McLaughlin as the school's 14th president in the summer of 1981, he seemed a perfect choice for a scholarly Ivy League bastion steeped in lusty, old-boy fellowship. Indeed, his persona glowed the deepest Dartmouth green: Phi Beta Kappa in the class of '54, wide receiver on the football team, M.B.A. from Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business Administration. Three of McLaughlin's four children had graduated from Dartmouth or were going there. Finally, as chief executive officer of the Toro Co., makers of lawn and gardening equipment, McLaughlin...
...frontcourt men, Phillips and Mohler, are leading the squad with 10 perfect free throw shooting nights (defined as games in which the player takes at least one free throw and doesn't miss any). Mohler (twice) and Dodson share the honor for the most prolific perfect night of the season with 6-for-6 performances...
However, the outstanding trio--which recorded a perfect 204-point score on the weekend--swept to a two-minute decision over the 15-kilometer course, to pull out a final 332-328 decision over the Polar Bears...
...piano religiously for an hour every day, even though she often hated it. As a student at Akron's Firestone High School, she was a member of the honor society, the French club, the chemistry club and the math club (the only girl among 15 boys), and had perfect scores of 800 on her Scholastic Aptitude Tests. "I can still see this little, short brunet in bobby socks and saddle shoes, quiet as a mouse," said Donald Nutter, a math teacher. "If you had a question no one else could answer, you could call...
...week's end, as it looked back and saw Uranus receding in the distance, Voyager seemed to be in perfect health. Scientists at J.P.L. are confident that it will stay that way not only through its encounter with Neptune in August 1989 but perhaps until 2010, when it will be far out of the solar system. Says Richard Laeser, the Voyager project manager: "I have no desire to do much else except to ride this thing all the way out into interstellar space...