Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...being bought. A recent health levy will generate an additional $320 million in federal, state and local funds over the next four years, and for the first time in years, thanks to a federal grant, Cleveland will have an unpolluted municipal beach. Not everything, to be sure, is perfect: voters have hiked police and firemen's salaries, putting even greater pressure on Stokes to push through a boost in the city income tax from ½% to 1%. Admitting many mistakes since he took office, Stokes nevertheless can now say proudly: "We've come a long, long...
...alter ego of senior music concentrator Robert Levin is no accident. Levin dates the loss of his musical virginity at the age of five and has been busily at work ever since. In the vocabulary of a prominent member of the Music Department, he has all the "equipment": perfect pitch, near-total recall, ability to read scores at sight, digital dexterity, and a catholic if necessarily incomplete cerebral storehouse of music from the 17th century to the present. At Harvard he has been chiefly occupied as classical music guru at WHRB, in addition to somewhat less frequent exposure as pianist...
...front end, the race belonged beyond question to Forward Pass. Lucky post position, an excellent ride, and a perfect pace situation all contributed to the official Derby winner's six-length lead, which seemed to grow with every stride...
...Good translators can earn as much as $5-6 per hour, and no IGS worker ever earns less than $2 per hour. For a student on scholarship who has to work, but who wants to work at erratic times and learn something at the same time, IGS is the perfect employer...
Nabokov lingers over the coincidence of the encounter, but his timing is nearly perfect. By drawing it out, he sharpens the anticipation of the impending adultery; before long, Martha, the frosty doll, and Franz, promoted from lifeless lump to "warm and pliant wax," can't get enough of each other...