Word: imperfectibility
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...sleaziness of this particular affair did not account for its disturbing effect on the public. From Baby Doe's birth on Jan. 10, he was seen and discussed as a piece of inferior merchandise, an imperfect creature come into the world as damaged goods. The mother disavowed motherhood; the father said "Not mine." Yet there was the child, frail but present. Deposited on the doorstep, he had to belong to someone...
...imperfect Beanpot career of the B.C. star ended (though we couldn't know it at the time) last February 8 under the opslaught of an inspired Terrier attack led by Tom O'Regan, who scored two goals and screened O'Connor on another. The Beanpot careers of 12 Eagle seniors came to their ill-fated ends in a fourth straight runner-up finish...
...instantly fetched her first-aid kit, cleaned the wound and applied a fresh bandage. Says Brelis: "Somehow, in her company, one thinks less of one's discomforts and more of other people's needs. The garbage collectors' world seemed a little less imperfect for her presence, and that, I think, is a miracle for this...
...centuries and has never achieved it. That is no reason why they should not continue to preach the message and to try to change mankind. That is their vocation. But peace has never been achieved, even for a while, by moral inspiration alone. It has always required the highly imperfect, compromise-ridden and impure actions of political leaders. The dilemma potentially posed by the bishops' strivings is that reaching for the best could undermine the good, and that striving for the ideal might undermine the practical. -By Richard N. Ostling. Reported by Jim Castelli/Washington, J. Madeleine Nash/Chicago and Bruce...
...measuring success. Quantity is no-clear indicator: while one professor churns out a stream of papers, another may be hidden in a laboratory quietly curing cancer. As for quality, that is something only an academic's colleagues can judge, not his administrative superiors. But even peer judgments are imperfect in academia, suspect as they usually are to internecine methodological disputes...