Word: imperfectly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leaders of the conservative National Conciliation Party (P.C.N.), Hugo Carrillo and Luis Lagos, recalled a conversation they had with West German parliament members visiting El Salvador. They told the West Germans: "Yes, it is true that our election is imperfect compared with the ones in your country. When you go to campaign in the small towns and isolated hamlets, you don't have to leave behind your last will and testament because that trip may be your last. Isn't the risk we run in this campaign proof of our democratic calling?" It is true. Asking...
...Reagan Administration's stance is malicious because it spotlights, the controversial and often imperfect faces of affirmative action without offering any constructive alternative; it tenaciously upholds rights as previously defined by the system while wholly ignoring the rights of those who have been excluded from the system entirely...
...walk to this one; run or fly, if you can. It will not travel; when it closes on March 11, a diorama of the energies that constituted one of the great moments in Western imagination will vanish. And the ritual of visiting Venice itself would be an imperfect substitute...
...evidence so far suggests that countries such as the Ivory Coast, Botswana, Senegal, Cameroon and Kenya have achieved political stability through a mixed economy, a strong, pragmatic central government, and evolving democratic institutions, however imperfect...
...wool-textile industry will die' or 'The Youngstown steel plant can be rehabilitated but the Weirton plant must close' will be a terrible mistake." The invisible hand of the free market, Schultze said, should make the decisions about industrial structure, even though the "choices will be imperfect...