Word: inexactness
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...more people than ever before as a result of Washington's increasingly expansive Great Society programs, from medicare to urban rebuilding. The Johnson budget is controversial because there is a widespread feeling that the uncertainties of the war in Viet Nam have made it even more tentative and inexact than budgets customarily are-and that the President has had to use every trick of ledgerdemain to hold down the deficit to $1.8 billion. Budget Director Charles Schultze defends his handiwork as "a highly responsible budget," but criticism, like the budget itself, seems to keep on growing. Says Joseph...
...have learned anything from all this," sighs Philharmonic Architect Max Abramovitz, "it is that acoustics is still an inexact science...
...Cold-hearted" was an overly strong and inexact word. By it I meant just what your letter implies, that you provide "an intellectual framework...to clarify action." I also believe and meant to suggest, that it is from this "framework," not from a direct empathy with specific human problems, that your passions chiefly flow. I did not intend to express disapproval of your approach, which is after all the approach of men as dissimilar and intelligent as Walter Lippman and Vladimir Lenin...
While majoring in economics, Percy devoted himself to the practical application of that inexact science. Of course he waited on tables. But he also took over and expanded a cooperative purchasing operation for all the fraternities, ran it into a highly profitable enterprise. He assumed management of the libraries in all the men's residence halls. He recruited students for an association of small colleges, got 5? for the name of every high-school student that he submitted and $10 for each of these who actually entered. Business got so good that Chuck subcontracted the job to some...
John F. Kennedy, during his 1960 pre-convention campaign, turned Veep playing from an inexact art into a high science; he had everyone from Herschel Loveless (Iowa) to George Docking (Kansas) to Edmund ("Pat") Brown (California) to Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson (Washington) thinking they might be his running mate. And in so promoting the possibilities, he won a fair number of delegate votes from their states...