Word: imperfect
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...Branch, the Strategic Defense Initiative now implicitly accepts the impracticality of a leakproof umbrella. Instead it adopts the somewhat more modest "interim" goal of "enhancing," rather than replacing, deterrence based on offensive weapons. The idea is that Soviet plans for an attack would be further complicated by even an imperfect American defense...
...Past Imperfect, Collins...
...discourage Novelist Mordecai Richler (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Joshua Then and Now). His 14th book, aptly subtitled My Canadian Album, is a mordant, witty brief for the defense of his homeland. As evidence, the Montreal native offers a series of diverse impressions of Canada's past imperfect and present tense. He lunches with Pierre Trudeau, and remembers an earlier Prime Minister, the gnomic William Lyon Mackenzie King, who "nightly for 22 years sat by his crystal ball, beneath an illuminated portrait of his mum, and rapped with her spirit, seeking guidance on how much to tax, when...
January, and Goldwater's memory of the Senate briefings was imperfect. Casey last week read back to the Senate Intelligence Committee remarks he had made about the mining that are contained in transcripts of briefings from March 8 and 13. That certainly did not end the dispute. Since the briefings were secret, the transcripts were also, so there was no way to check exactly what Casey said. The recollections of Senators who attended the briefings differ so sharply that they might be describing different meetings...
Behind Reagan's orchestration of the congressional praise was the hope that the impressive though imperfect Salvadoran display would rally Senate support for a compromise package of $62 million worth of proposed emergency military aid for El Salvador. Without the funds, insisted Reagan, the 30,000-member Salvadoran army would soon be unable to defend the country against the guerrillas, whose unity is sometimes debatable but whose destructiveness is beyond dispute (see box). The Senate gave tentative approval to the aid, but, chiefly through the efforts of Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, a promised formal vote...