Word: idealizations
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Enhanced choice is the ideal solution. You raise your chance of getting into your favorite house in this scenario by 9.2 percent, up to 21.5 percent from 12.3 percent...
Most Russians still feel they are not getting enough. "We're pretending to reform, and you're pretending to help us," goes the Moscow saying. But both the reform and the aid are real, if short of ideal. Together, Europe, Japan, Canada and the U.S. have given or loaned $81 billion to the 10 members of the Commonwealth of Independent States since 1990. More than two-thirds comes from Bonn, eager to finance the departure of Soviet soldiers. The U.S. share of $9.2 billion includes $5.5 billion in loans for Russian purchases from American farms...
Despite these arguments, the College's policy of non-ordered choice is not ideal for the accomplishment of the administration's own objectives. It certainly is not the most efficient way to achieve Harvard's stated goal of increased diversity in housing. Complete randomization, even if used for just a few years, would more rapidly produce the environment sought by University Hall. Why should a housing policy impede the realization of a goal already agreed upon by the College...
This desire for perfection extends to physical appearance, says Heatherton. Although men are not impervious to the diet mentality, society's "emphasis on physical appearance" is stronger for women than for men. Society's conception of the ideal female body is unrealistic, and college women undergoing natural physiological changes often feel trapped by their own biology, he says...
...economic sphere, conservatives have every reason to continue to be critical of Big Government, undue intrusions into the market, protectionism, excessive regulation and apocalyptic environmentalism. They should continue to stand against ever expanding entitlements and the ideal of forced equality. But conservatives must not merely oppose. In that spirit they should also question some of their taboos (certain tax increases and government initiatives cannot be damned under any and all circumstances). As creative conservatives from Disraeli on understood, conservatism is bound to fail if it is seen as a prescription for doing nothing...