Word: partialness
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...these moves suggest--but hardly guarantee --a course correction on Iraq by September, when the patience of even GOP lawmakers will probably run out. Talk of a partial U.S. drawdown or a new acceleration of Iraqi-troop training increases with each day. A senior Administration official who participates in foreign policy meetings chose his words carefully last week: "It will be easier to execute a change in direction if the people who have to decide on it do not feel bound by things they have said and done in the past...
...Guha's conclusions are sobering. Today's weakened institutions, he says, mean that Indian democracy is best described as a partial success. India is mostly democratic "when it comes to holding elections and permitting freedom of movement and expression." But it mostly isn't "when it comes to the functioning of politicians and political institutions." The survival of Indian democracy is magnificent, but as its preeminent chronicler points out, more must be done before the all of India's citizens can fully enjoy its fruits...
...Wishful thinking gets the process going, but by the end it has no place. No 21st century reader needs reminding that zealous belief in unseen or partial evidence can have disastrous results. A thesis may begin with Paul’s version of belief, but it is developed only with a commitment to a process akin to the scientific method. You try out a hypothesis, have the guts to follow it through, and then evenly assess what you have. Crises of belief—“what if I am wrong?”—do threaten...
...stability and leadership to the World Bank, which remains an important institutions,” said Roger B. Porter, the IBM professor of business and government . “When I was a junior professor, he was one of my best teaching fellows, so I’m somewhat partial to him—but he’s got experience, and he is bright and capable. He’s a skillful negotiator, and that’s what the job needs.” Bush cited Zoellick’s work in such fields as Latin American debt...
...with helpful comments such as “?”, “confusing,” “C+,” and “SEE ME AFTER CLASS.” Finally, I thought, I’ll be getting my much deserved partial credit on multiple choice tests. Now, after three years as a student here, I can safely say that I was grossly misinformed about the popular notion that getting good grades at Harvard is easy. My first introduction to the difficulty of Harvard academics came freshman year, when I realized that...