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...readily admit that I am not the best Catholic or the best liberal. I am very human; thus I am often very wrong. Likewise, the institution of the church has made many mistakes through the centuries. But as the Bible makes clear, any human institution is imperfect because of the weaknesses of people, not of the faith behind...
...time when corporations increasingly expect employees to work with minimal supervision and to show more initiative, cooperation and fresh approaches are essential. Instead of viewing workers of a different sex and of varied cultural backgrounds as an unmanageable and imperfect lot, some top executives see them as a new and flexible resource. Says Colgate-Palmolive's Mark: "We do business in 60 countries. We are a multicultural company, so we should have multicultural managers." Encouraging diversity, after all, is not just an accommodation to the new realities of the U.S. labor force. It can be another way of ensuring that...
...cheers, anyway. Because this is not the revolution that I, at least, signed on for. When the feminist movement burst forth a couple of decades ago, the goal was not just to join 'em -- and certainly not just to beat 'em -- but to improve an imperfect world. Gloria Steinem sketched out the vision in a 1970 TIME Essay titled "What It Would Be Like If Women Win." What it would be like was a whole lot better, for men as well as women, because, as she said right up front, "Women don't want to exchange places with...
...pool some of their sovereignty in organizations like the European Community. Two further inducements in that direction have been the salutary phenomenon of economic interdependence and the ominous one of ecological despoliation on a scale too daunting for any nation to handle on its own. The United Nations, however imperfect and maligned as an institution, is a powerful and promising idea...
Although he admitted that the proposal's developers knew it to be "imperfect," Dienstbier denied that it was "too fantastic," and said the investment would ultimately save money that otherwise would go to military expenditures...