Mr. Prechter founded ASC Inc., an automotive supplier and engineering firm, which is credited with perfecting the sunroof.
As his friend Paul Fisher, then the public relations director of United Aircraft, quipped, Lindbergh could be "credited with perfecting the transitional, zone-to-zone, man-for-man, freewheeling nonskid hyphen".
Kyōto, Japan 1758 Miyazaki Yūzen, also called Miyazaki Yūzensai (born, Kyōto, Japan died 1758) Japanese painter credited with perfecting a rice-paste dyeing method that made possible the economical production of sumptuously decorated cloth.
The most famous of these was Sen no Rikyu (1522-1591), who served as tea master to Hideyoshi and is credited with perfecting the tea ceremony style described by the word wabi, or simplicity.
And Thomas Jefferson, who was consumed as much with perfecting the gardens surrounding Monticello as he was with nailing down inalienable rights, planted mustard seeds after sampling a good Dijon during his French ambassadorship.
But if officials avoid making calls because they are afraid to make mistakes, or if they repeatedly slow down offenses while they huddle up to get their facts straight, they are fundamentally altering a game that the N.F.L. is otherwise obsessed with perfecting and protecting.
