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Word: imperfect (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University's full acceptance of ROTC. Or, at least, that it's unreasonable to welcome ROTC without conceding that it should undergo that "liberalizing force." But it's not as unreasonable as Harvard's 30-year cold war with the military and its men and women--who, although imperfect like all of us, devote their lives to our freedom, our ability to pursue the lives we will and our security within these ivory towers...

Author: By Bronwen C. Mcshea, | Title: Harvard's Anti-Military Arrogance | 9/29/1999 | See Source »

AUTHOR PLUG: "I want to inspire young Americans to commit to causes greater than themselves. It's very redemptive for imperfect people...like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Write for Food | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...ended up with a partial and imperfect list, but in the end, these are the voices we love to hear," she wrote...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, | Title: Talk Magazine Names Harvard Profs West, Gomes "Big Mouths" | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

...since 1995. Like a lot of the novels on which good movies are based, it is an entertaining, erotically charged fiction of the second rank, in need of the vivifying physicalization of the screen and the kind of narrative focus a good director can bring to imperfect but provocative life--especially when he has been thinking about it as long as Kubrick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: All Eyes On Them | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...dryer and a good cleaning did the job. But today's louse, a.k.a. Pediculus humanus capitis, which nests in 12 million new heads annually, is a hardier bug, having grown resistant to the prescription drugs lindane and Elimite and the over-the-counter permethrin drug Nix, which remain imperfect mainstays in the treatment of lice. "The pyrethrins [RID, Pronto and A-200 Pyrinate] aren't working as well as they used to either," says University of Miami lice expert Terri Meinking. Such insecticide products all have side effects. And none are 100% ovicidal, which doesn't cut it with today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family: The Lice Breakers | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

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