Word: perfectible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...QUINN: I guess it is not ridiculous that any woman would like to be married to Wilbur Mills, I think he could be a perfect husband. I would like to marry somebody older than my former husband...
These and many other writers have their differences on exactly what the perfect libertarian goal is. But the differences are small compared to the great body of general agreement. The belief in the sanctity of individual liberty, in natural rights and non-aggression are common to all libertarians. Their basic political axiom is that no man, including representatives of governments, may initiate the use of force against the person or property of another. This is centered around a crucial libertarian tenet that each person should have complete control or ownership over his own life. Every man is free to enter...
...years after the Crash, bore the chief brunt of the Congressional investigations into stock market practices. As he grew more and more ultraconservative and self-confident about the financial world of Wall Street's Old Guard (at one point he told a Congressional committee the Stock Exchange was "a perfect institution"), Whitney's personal affairs deteriorated to the point where he embezzled money from the estate of his father-in-law. In 1938 his financial position finally collapsed in one of the largest personal bankruptcies in American history, and later in the same year he went to jail. His self...
...played a perfect game," added forward Jimmy Thomas. Both players were close to the truth, as Harvard out-skated, out-hustled, and out-everythinged an outclassed Terrier hockey team...
...high-flying, crowd-pleasing Bell line that put the final touches on the Terrier collapse. Burke sent a perfect pass across to sophomore center Bell, who fired it past a much-abused Devlin...