Word: perfectly
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...behavior experts are not easily topped. Washington Correspondent Carolyn Lesh, one member of the TIME team that reported this week's cover story on the revival of interest in proper behavior, accompanied Judith Martin on a promotion tour for her new book, Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect Children. "She has excruciatingly correct manners," says Lesh, "but once, when we were in a store and a clerk mumbled, Martin responded with a 'What?' Later I asked 'Shouldn't you have said, Pardon me?' " No way, said Martin. "What" was correct. "To pardon...
...YORK--Willie Hernandez, whose near-perfect relief pitching played a major role in the Detroit Tigers drive to the World Series championship, yesterday was named the winner of the American League Cy Young Award as the league's best pitcher...
That psychic procrustean bed is being splintered by Ferraro's campaign. The next woman to run for Vice President will not need to achieve perfect self-modulation. Nor will a male candidate again take the liberty, as George Bush did, of making lame jokes about the World Series when given the chance to ask a question of his female opponent. Lee Csanad, a typographer, said indignantly, "Bush certainly underscored the fact that to this Administration our opinion has never mattered." The Bush campaign's post-debate donning of the manly trappings of the locker room-from gleeful references...
...Fish and Wildlife Service to transport the rare bird over state lines. As a result, he was snared in an undercover sting operation aimed at poachers who illegally supply falconers in the Middle East, where the ancient sport of hunting with trained raptors is still popular and a perfect live bird can sell for thousands of dollars...
Despite these liabilities, however, Dole has retained his ties to the White House (not least by his marriage to Elizabeth Dole, the Secretary of Transportation and the seventh woman ever to serve on a Presidential cabinet) and many see him as perhaps the perfect compromise candidate for an ideologically divided Senate majority. What could hurt him, though, are his undistinguished Presidential ambitions; several of his opponents have warned their colleagues not to elect a Majority Leader who will spend four years promoting his own political interests...