Word: imperfect
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...specialization and separation of the scientists. Wall Street lawyers realized the new value of the "unseen" technology, like electronics and chemistry. and, in their pursuit of power, they perceived that they must keep scientists separated through specialization and unaware of their multiple achievements. The result is inefficiency due to imperfect information. Fuller's description of this seenario is vivid, the references current and convincing...
Still, I've been thinking a lot lately about things like the Platonic idea--and I hit upon the notion that in the shadow world which is Cambridge. Tommy's is really the imperfect reflection of Sardi's. I really hink so. Go in there on any weekend night and you'll see what I mean. I mean Sardi's back in the old days--back when gangsters went there, and showgirls, and all those members of what they called high society. Tommy's is like that too, in that too--in a strangely refracted way. The gangsters are usually...
...STARE AWAY at Michelle bathing, at Manon padding about the house in torn outgrown pajamas, at Guy sweating and drooling in his sleep. The movie is so permeated by the crisp snap-crackle-pop of late autumn in the mountains, so unabashed before the imperfect facts of life (like flat tires, cracked boots and dirty dishes), that the ugliness takes on an indefinable glow, Les Bons Debarras tells it like it is, but in the process manages to make it magic...
Corruption exists, and probably always will, in this obviously imperfect world. But should the U.S. participate in it? Bribery on the global scale that is now occurring is costly, saps political vitality and can eventually undermine a people's trust in government. The regimes of the Shah in Iran or General Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua are testimonies to the problem...
...results for many people from the start and for almost everybody in the decade of America's greatest economic collapse. For the next 40 years bureaus sprang full-blown from the heads of Democrats, as our nation decided that only collectively could it solve the enormous problems of an imperfect society. But that consensus began to falter in the late 1960s, when Americans chose Richard Nixon, and in 1972, when they chose him again, emphatically. Watergate intervened, throwing an election to the Democrats. But then came Proposition 13, and inevitably behind it Ronald Reagan, the Kemp-Roth...