Word: imperfect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...foreign leaders are not at all ready to write off the world's largest democracy. "Indian democracy has weathered such blows before and can do so again," said a senior British diplomat. Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, U.S. ambassador to New Delhi during the Kennedy Administration, called the system "imperfect but secure." Said Galbraith: "The idea that the people of India would surrender their sovereignty to any form of dictatorship is not true. And I would feel sorry for anyone who tried to impose it on them...
...imperfect success of the propaganda campaign leaves Iraq with one big hope for a face-saving way out of the war: Soviet diplomacy. Moscow has not only gone along with the U.S. demand that Iraq get out of Kuwait completely and unconditionally but also helped draft the U.N. resolution authorizing the use of force if Saddam did not comply by Jan. 15. That, however, was when glasnost and democratization were in full flower, and Eduard Shevardnadze, a professed friend of the U.S., was Foreign Minister...
Under my standard, well-intentioned white liberals could resign themselves to be what they are: imperfect creatures trying to follow the Golden Rule. Better yet, this standard clearly establishes that people like me are the moral betters of those who advocate nonsense such as "Afrocentrism" and the superiority of "sun peoples" over "ice peoples...
...armed services have developed elaborate -- albeit imperfect -- systems to avoid friendly fire. To prevent mishaps like the one near Khafji, Marine air-support planes carry laser-guided versions of the Maverick missile that must be guided to their targets by the pilot. Though not as smart as the infrared models favored by the U.S. Air Force, which can be fired and left to track the target on their own, the laser-guided Mavericks are less likely to mistake a friend...
...house system isn't everything Harvard says it is, and we have been critical, of "house life" in the past. But integration into one of the houses, however imperfect they may be, is surely preferable to being left out in the cold...