Word: imperfection
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that's the signal to "get out quick." A "Q" means the company is in bankruptcy, and even the pros say figuring out details of who gets what, and when, is difficult. "The information flow can be very sketchy. Management is in turmoil. It's a very imperfect market," says Jonathan Rosenthal, a partner at Saybrook Capital, a Santa Monica, Calif., investment bank that focuses on restructuring bankrupt companies...
...Martha, meanwhile, was stepping down from the presidency of a billion-dollar empire she started from scratch, having been arraigned at Manhattan's federal courthouse on charges of securities fraud and obstruction of justice. She may have been spared the perp walk, but the sight of Martha in such imperfect circumstances was a shock - the only visible touch of the domestic goddess of old being the spotless white umbrella held above her head...
...death penalty is not carried out in some perfect world, where gods and angels preside over just executions for the good of society. Here on earth, we don’t elect gods; we elect human beings. Our institutions of government and law are the impure creations of imperfect men like Governor George Ryan. Ryan just had the integrity to see the impurities in the system and act accordingly...
...biggest change, perhaps, is internal: we began at 18 and are now four years older. In many ways, Harvard has been a good place to do some growing up. Part of this is because it is an imperfect institution, and, in the process of criticizing its faults and foibles, we begin to recognize and cultivate our own ideals. It is because we have some sense of what things should or could be, after all, that we are dissatisfied with what is, and because we have hope that things can be made better, that we work so constantly to implement...
...reforms are made. Tests need to be combined with better staff training, better teaching, better use of resources and better organization to have any significant effect. And while standardized tests can be used for diagnostics, by only testing certain skills, they are not full measures of student achievement. These imperfect tests should not be linked to graduation in any state...