Word: imperfect
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...could end up on more dangerous, less effective medications than you would otherwise. It might be, for example, better to give you that antibiotic and treat the yeast infection later than to give another drug and burn out your kidneys. Medicine is full of delicate choices between imperfect alternatives. Bottom line: go over your allergy list carefully with any nurse or doctor who takes it. Ask to see it when you check into the hospital and correct it if it's wrong...
...skin? Check-during adolescence my forehead was practically a member of OPEC. Enlarged pores? You bet-I've named some of them after lunar craters. Of course, I hadn't realized large pores were a bad thing. Now I'm paying $150 for professionals to tell me just how imperfect...
...past, Americans believed that the needs and concerns of our citizens would be addressed by the federal government —the president, Congress, or the courts. Though the solutions provided were often imperfect or short-term, Washington still managed to address issues of poverty, civil rights, the economy, the environment, education, and healthcare...
...chance, and really see what’s been around you for four years. Once you do that, you can proudly put on your suit, jump on a plane, or buy books for graduate school to begin to fulfill the legacy of excellence that you nurtured at our dear, imperfect Harvard. Monica M. Clark ’06, who was a Crimson executive editor in 2005, is a history and literature concentrator in Currier House...
...subcommittee was pressed for time or did not fully understand the size and scope of each organization. By all indications, however, the subcommittee was acting in good faith—trying to assign student space to the groups that needed it most—even if the result was imperfect. Yet, even though the assignment of space fell short of our expectations, all is not lost for the ambitious project. The subcommittee says it will reevaluate its assignments next year, so these misallocations of space may soon be rectified. We hope that the subcommittee evaluates the application in a more...