Word: imperfections
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That's when the CPI fix could prove handy. The index is actually an imperfect measure of inflation that the Bureau of Labor Statistics calculates by keeping track of consumer prices for a so-called basket of 364 categories of goods and services; those prices are compared with what was charged for the same items in a 1982-84 base period. Just as a rising tide lifts all ships, a CPI that increases 2%, for example, automatically boosts by the same percentage such federal expenditures as Social Security payments, civil service pensions and earned-income tax credits...
...President's defeated. The battle for the party's soul will continue even if he wins. But if he loses, the liberals will claim that the dlc's centrist views were responsible and should be tossed aside entirely. The counterargument will be that just because the messenger proved imperfect, doesn't mean the message itself should be junked...
Being placed at 29 Garden St. was in some ways like the experience of life at Harvard in general: you sometimes have to make the best out of an imperfect scenario...
...beautiful people-and that, month after month, is what they get. No matter if the clothes are designed by a friend of the editor's; an Armani suit is still an Armani suit. Readers probably do not expect to find stories about a designer's overseas sweatshops or imperfect personal life-and they rarely do. What would happen if the fashion editors took the initiative and cleaned up their act, much the way Conda Nast Traveler rewrote the rules for travel magazines in 1987 by refusing to allow its writers to accept free trips? Would the editorial content change dramatically...
...incident reflects the fact that human beings, are very,very imperfect people," he says.Sir,is that imperfect or incompetent...