Word: imperfect
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...greatest country in the world” so often you wonder if there’s a string coming out of his back, Palin told donors in Colorado: “Our opponent…is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country.” Beyond Palin’s remark being a profound distortion of the senator’s relationship with former Weather Underground Organization member William Ayers, it’s also a direct contradiction...
...public, they must be willing to accept somewhat imperfect solutions, Rowe said...
...from the previous year each fall. Certainly, this system of representation has its pitfalls: Houses with senior representatives last year would lack a direct voice on the Council, and last year’s freshman representatives would now live in houses instead of the Yard. But even such an imperfect solution seems superior to a system that deprives students of representation altogether. Since UC efforts often continue through the summer and into the following year, an interim assembly could easily focus on these ongoing issues until elections take place, waiting for October before choosing to address any new, large-scale...
...It’s an imperfect compromise in an imperfect world,” he said. “This is only the first step on a long road. If the markets see that Congress is afraid to take this first step, they’re going to be very nervous...
...School’s Pound Hall yesterday. Sen argued that the transcendental theory of justice, which he attributed to philosophers John Rawls and Robert Nozick, overlooks important aspects of justice by concentrating narrowly on what it would take to have a perfectly just society, rather than on improving existing, imperfect social structures. “Justice-enhancing changes demand comparative assessment, not any immaculate identification of the just society,” Sen said. Sen won the 1998 Nobel Prize in economics for his contributions to welfare economics. Sen pioneered the “capability approach” for measuring...