Word: imperfectible
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...problem Janeway does not face is a lack of resources: the Globe's parent company has made a pretax profit of $40 million for the first nine months of 1984. He recognizes the paper's complex and imperfect character. "I want to nourish the traditions of individuality and crusading," he says, "but I may put greater emphasis on other flags we salute, such as consistency and keeping opinion out of the news columns." Adds Winship modestly: "Mike may be better at keeping the paper steady than...
Affirmative rebuttal: The alternative is a series of campaigns consisting of ever more tightly controlled photo opportunities and slickly packaged TV spots. Debates offer an imperfect but valuable chance for a mass audience to try to distinguish image from reality...
...Jewish Pole who fled his native country in 1942, Belfer has "acquired a sense of appreciation for what a wonderful and imperfect country this is... always striving to better itself...
...while it can take years to develop a new formula, some students are living in storage closets. Determining whether more dramatic charges, such as a radical reworking of the housing policy or construction of a new House, are in order could take far longer. Even if their methods remain imperfect, College officials and masters should seriously consider increasing the flexibility of the various elements in the housing system to remedy the immediate difficulties...
...social statement and character study, then, Impulse stumbles. As a visual collage of human evil and a psychological work of suspense, it succeeds, and occasionally even sparkles. It is the product of a rich, but imperfect collective creative psyche...