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Word: perfection (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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IMAGINING a community of perfect diversity, the staff opinion passionately plunges down the wrong course at the right time for the housing lottery...

Author: By Steven J. Newman, | Title: Don't Go All the Way | 12/14/1989 | See Source »

...submit, perhaps naively, that the Crimson editors would not claim to be running a perfect newspaper. It is puzzling, therefore, that the Crimson has taken unto itself the liberty to play ombudsman for the Indy; there is daily evidence that their work at Plympton Street is far from complete. "Factual" or not, sarcastic criticism is arrogant and pompous. When such an accusation is left unsigned--as it was on Saturday--it is also an act of cowardice. The comic irony, of course, is that the issue addressed by the anonymous writer in this case relied upon the fact that Indy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Indy Responds | 12/13/1989 | See Source »

Dena O. Rakoff, the pre-law advising coordinator at the Office of Career Services (OCS), said yesterday that the number of students scoring a perfect "48" on their October LSATs tripled from last year to this year. She said she could not predict how the scores would affect admissions chances until she knew how Harvard students' performances compared with others nationwide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Test Scores Show More 48s | 12/12/1989 | See Source »

...test is completely bogus. With a little bit of studying anyone can do well on it," said Andrew B. Clubok '90, one of there seniors in a Winthrop House rooming group who got a perfect score. "It is a poor measure of what it's supposed to test...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Test Scores Show More 48s | 12/12/1989 | See Source »

...camera's eye -- something she is doing with ever greater frequency these days -- she turns chillier and more controlled than her already well-disciplined self. Her speech becomes stricter, her smile tighter. Wattleton monitors herself closer than the camera does, for she is intent on being nothing less than perfect, as though a single dangling modifier or wayward statistic will bring her down, and with her the movement in which she so fervently believes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nothing Less Than Perfect: FAYE WATTLETON | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

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