Word: imperfect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beautiful people-and that, month after month, is what they get. No matter if the clothes are designed by a friend of the editor's; an Armani suit is still an Armani suit. Readers probably do not expect to find stories about a designer's overseas sweatshops or imperfect personal life-and they rarely do. What would happen if the fashion editors took the initiative and cleaned up their act, much the way Conda Nast Traveler rewrote the rules for travel magazines in 1987 by refusing to allow its writers to accept free trips? Would the editorial content change dramatically...
...incident reflects the fact that human beings, are very,very imperfect people," he says.Sir,is that imperfect or incompetent...
...incident reflects the fact that human beings are very, very imperfect people and reflects the fact that if somebody in a position of power does something phenomenally stupid it can have disastrous consequences," Bruce said...
Rugby? Isn't that football's stepchild, a game only played in Her Majesty's Old Empire, a game that is an imperfect cross between handball and soccer and other very un-American sports? Well, at Harvard, nothing could be further from the truth. Rugby as a club sport is alive and thriving, and today's rugby's Beanpot takes place at Soldier's Field...
...repressed memories pop up years later, brain specialists say, they must be imperfect-and highly vulnerable to outside influence and revision. Elizabeth Loftus, a professor of psychology at the University of Washington, has shown just how easy it is to create a false memory. In a study to be published this summer, Loftus asked older siblings or other relatives of 24 people to make up a story about the younger person being lost at the mall between the ages of four and six. While 18 participants insisted that the incident had never happened, six of them not only believed...