Word: imperfection
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...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...
...know, we're all living on this little planet here, and you know, the borders of countries are just lines on a piece of paper." Sure, he admits, the U.N. gets into a tangle now and then. "Like any organization that's run by people," he says, "it's imperfect." Turner points out that he gives quite a bit of money to the U.S. government in taxes, and the last time he checked, that was less than a lean, clean operation. He feels compelled to donate to the U.N. in part because the U.S. has not been paying its membership...
...Despite the newcomers on the court and the personal misfortune off of it, Delaney-Smith turned her group of players into a cohesive, if imperfect, work, developing pieces for the future while trying to achieve in the present...
...unless they can prove (using police crime reports) that the locale presents a real and present danger to Domino's drivers. The compromise, which simultaneously allows Domino's to settle without admitting any wrongdoing and keeps the DOJ's civil rights agenda on track, may be seen as an imperfect solution to a messy problem. "The Justice Department did the best it could under the circumstances, " says TIME legal reporter Alain Sanders. "The DOJ wanted to acknowledge that race cannot inform a delivery schedule, and concurrently signal that it understands safety concerns...
Words from both sides suggest two areas of underlying agreement among the discord: achievement tests are worthwhile, but MCAS is an imperfect instrument...