Word: imperfect
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...results for many people from the start and for almost everybody in the decade of America's greatest economic collapse. For the next 40 years bureaus sprang full-blown from the heads of Democrats, as our nation decided that only collectively could it solve the enormous problems of an imperfect society. But that consensus began to falter in the late 1960s, when Americans chose Richard Nixon, and in 1972, when they chose him again, emphatically. Watergate intervened, throwing an election to the Democrats. But then came Proposition 13, and inevitably behind it Ronald Reagan, the Kemp-Roth...
...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...