Word: impracticall
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"In effect, Cy Pres means you can change the terms of the gift if they become impractical or illegal," Connors says. "But you can change it only so much as to make it practical or legal [still adhering] to the terms of the gift."
Essentially, Cotton concludes that deliberative democratic theory conflicts in a strong sense with representative democracy. After summarizing Habermas's vision of society as "a debating society in which everyone talks incessantly about everything," Cotton informs us that asking everyone (including the most unvirtuous of souls) "to deliberate continually on the...
I take exception to the offhand comment that by 2001 everyone will be using computers with Windows 2001 and that the only holdouts will be "aging potheads still designing really cool fractal algorithms" on Macintosh computers. Even in jest, comments like this distort reality. Macs are not relevant only to...
So is this the end of the literary line for Vonnegut? "I'm 75 years old," he answered gruffly, "You can ask an insurance agent." According to the author, he will put down his pen for good and take up painting silk-screens, which he gleefully calls, "a terribly impractical...
For Powell, the challenge isn't to attract offers--he gets a plastic Postal Service bin full of letters each day. The challenge is to separate the ideas that will work from other well-meaning but impractical ones. For instance, he likes American Express's summer program that pays teachers...