"He said my resume was fatally flawed," wrote a job-hunter in Dun's Review in 1975, "because it failed to tell a prospective employer what I could do for him". In 1983, United States Ambassador to UNESCO Jean Gerard said that the organization was "so skewed, so far off course, so fatally flawed" that the United States had to get out.
While most agree that a system in which a life on benefits is more financially secure than a low-paid job is flawed, the solution to this state of affairs is a source of dispute.
Trade deficit numbers may be scary but they are also frighteningly flawed, doing a terrible job of accounting for trade in services, trade via the Internet, and inter-company trade, to pick just three among many problem areas.
They said their findings indicate that an entire generation of previous minimum wage studies that found negative effects on jobs is fundamentally flawed.
They in effect are saying that police officers doing their jobs — however horribly flawed the outcome — cannot get the same fair hearing in this city as a man who has admitted to beating a 7-year-old girl, tying her to a chair, holding her under cold water and denying her food.
Whether or not Saunders is the right man for the job and however flawed the decision-making is in the boardroom, it is impossible to ignore the woeful performances from the players and their part in this mess.
Gone are the demure Cinderellas and Snow Whites: the girls from Brave, The Princess and the Frog and Frozen are fun, flawed and learning on the job, not carbon-copy saints.
They are also trying to prove the model for last season's success was not entirely flawed, and that is the job of those star players who engineered that shocking run to Super Bowl XXXV.
It makes software to help companies evaluate job applicants, replacing flawed methods like campus recruiting and résumé screens with a series of neuroscience-based games that are intended to be nondiscriminatory.
Mr Bhagwati also argues that a second assumption of the fetishists that manufacturing is better for job creation is fundamentally flawed.
