Word: imperfectly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...large number of electoral votes in western states as a key factor in what he believes will be a Reagan victory. Although he allowed that a well staged hostage release might affect balloting, Nye discounted the possibility of a Carter victory, calling negotiations with Iran "too late and too imperfect...
Leaders must believe in power, he says. They must have a sense of majesty, possess dignity, a touch of poetry and at the same time a tolerance for what is imperfect. "Too often these days we have developed self-hatred because we have had to act imperfectly...
...think the only answer to that question--and it is an imperfect answer--is that we must allocate the unfairness to those who can best afford it," Sullivan added. The city's fiscal crunch is the "perfect example of the folly of relying on property taxes," he added...
Writer, co-author and editor of 18 books, Robinson is professor of economics Emeritus at Cambridge University, where she taught for more than 40 years. Her 1933 classic, Economics of Imperfect Competition, restated the theory of values and is still considered one of the leading works in the field...
Some of these dilemmas require something close to squaring the circle. Compromises will be necessary and progress will be imperfect. The lesson of the past, activist decade is that, if capitalist managers do not take social actions voluntarily, unforgiving legislators and regulators will force them to do so, and the consequences will be harsh...