Word: imperfection
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...plan of Vice President Gore is also somewhat imperfect. At a cost of roughly $500 billion with interest, the program is considerably more reasonable than Bush's tax splurge. Yet the many targeted tax components would add a number of new exceptions to the tax code, and there is a virtue in simplicity, especially when political logrolling is an ever-present threat. In many ways, the credits proposed by Gore represent spending programs under a different name. But the aims of the programs are admirable: we are very glad to see Gore's proposal to expand the EITC, a program...
...would look at the morally fascinating Nader Temptation - the dilemma of those who must decide whether to preserve their indignant purity by voting for Ralph Nader, thereby helping to elect George Bush, or whether to go with the imperfect but serviceable vehicle of their principles, Al Gore. A classic bind, with psychological roots in the Glorious Lost Cause mentality - virtue going down in flames, uncompromised...
...around the stretch they come, baring their teeth and shaking their fists and raising their arms and smiling. George W. Bush and Al Gore, the two imperfect major-party candidates for president. Two weeks to go, and the thing is so close its shape is barely perceptible...
...doctrine chief, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, that will be sent to every Catholic bishop warning against the temptation to view other denominations as equals. "There exists a single Church of Christ, which subsists in the Catholic Church," writes Ratzinger. Churches that don't accept papal primacy are, he says, in "imperfect communion" with the church, and are "not Churches in the proper sense...
...that imperfect test for EPO--use it anyway. As gold medal marathoner Frank Shorter, now chairman of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, says, knowing a test is looming will knock cheaters off stride. Shorter says that if there is no EPO test at Sydney, then every endurance or strength performance is suspect. He's right. And when sport becomes suspect--when no one believes in it--it's no longer worth watching...