Word: imperfectly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when they first met, thought him strong, worldly and commanding, but soon has a new viewpoint. Mom's sailor may have been fine on the ocean, where he was part of "the pure and perfect order of things," but away from his rightful place, he becomes an imperfect creature, a subject of jealousy and contempt who must be done away with. Jonathan consults the Chief, who had previously persuaded his minions to dispatch the family cat. The Chief sees no reason why the boys should not broaden their murderous horizons...
...this century crime rates have risen and fallen in response to complex forces we do not well understand. Until the FBI began to keep track of crime in the 1930s, there were not even any national figures to show these changes. The FBI Uniform Crime Reports, though imperfect, reveal some remarkable trends. For example, during the 1930s, reported rates of robbery and burglary declined more or less steadily in spite of (or perhaps because of) adverse economic conditions. In the 1960s the reported rates of these crimes rose despite (or again, perhaps because of) general prosperity...
...number of essays illustrate the power of Marcus's methodology. In "Freud and Dora," Marcus uses literary techniques to probe psychoanalytical problems in one of Freud's case histories, elucidating his ambivalencies toward his patient and his as yet imperfect understanding of the transference relationship from the internal inconsistencies and shifts in tone of the writing. And in "Literature and Social Theory," Marcus draws out the connection between a certain style of narration and the presence of a functionalist, organicist social theory in George Eliot's fiction. By making this connection, Marcus was able to uncover the roots of both...
Schafft reports that many parents are not aware of the separation of blacks and whites in Greentrees. Thus while white parents hope for integration, the school experiences of their children point out what Schafft, in academic but accurate jargon, calls "the imperfect mesh between ideology and behavior...
...eliminate guesswork by eye, he invented jigs, or guides for tools, so that the outline of the product would not be marred by the fallibility of a shaky hand or imperfect vision. He made automatic stops that would disconnect the tool at the precise depth or diameter of a cut. He made clamps to hold the metal while the guided chisels or milling wheels cut it. By dividing his factory into departments-one for barrels, one for stocks, one for each lock piece-the parts could be brought into an assembly room and put together in one continuous, uninterrupted process...