Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tandem with Primakov seemed the perfect way out. Luzhkov announced that he would defer to Primakov, who at the time seemed a shoo-in for President. But the attacks continued. Instead of planning for the future, Luzhkov is now fighting for his political survival...
...Giacchetto's real undoing may have been the ill-fated alliance he made last fall with Jeffrey Sachs, a principal of the Chase Capital Entertainment Partners investment fund. Cassandra-Chase looked perfect on paper: Chase brought the structure to do private equity investment, and Giacchetto brought his high-wattage clients. But friction developed fast. Among the sore points, Cassandra-Chase's investment in Digital Entertainment Network, an Internet start-up whose chairman resigned after the out-of-court settlement of a suit that alleged he had molested a 13-year...
...maybe the ribbing is a little unfair. Despite NASA's can-do public attitude, expecting a perfect record when you're sending machines across 50 million miles of empty space to an alien world would be naive. But trying to do it in a slapdash fashion doesn't help. "There's a difference," grouses John Pike, a space expert with the Federation of American Scientists, "between cheap and cheaper...
...York City isn't the only place with bad apples. A schoolteacher in Atlanta was caught distributing advance copies of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills, and another in northern Georgia was cited when seven of his special-ed students scored a perfect 600 on the language portion of the test. Dan Erling, a respected sixth-grade math instructor in Atlanta, left the profession in disgust over what he felt was rampant cheating. He estimates that as many as 15% of his incoming students had inflated test scores because of improper help from teachers, such as telling students...
...missed an opportunity to mention the 200-plus cities that have First Night celebrations. Here's a simple and meaningful way to spend New Year's Eve in your own area with your neighbors. It sounds perfect to me--a party aimed at the family that is affordable and free of alcohol. It presents a smorgasbord of performances, part carnival, all within a few blocks. Afterward I will go home and, with champagne in hand, join my dog Charlie in front of the TV to watch the ball come down at midnight (taped earlier) in New York City. STEPHANIE BOOTH...