Word: blemish
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...Muslims understand that terrorists are a fringe element in the Muslim world, I still feel ashamed that such atrocities could emerge from among my people. While the whole world opposes the terrible evil of terrorism, the greater fight for the Muslim community is to wipe out that ugly blemish. At this moment, while feeling grief for all affected, I want to cry out to the world: "I am a Muslim. And like most of my fellow Muslims, I don't hate or kill non-Muslims. I love my non-Muslim friends dearly?including many Americans?as they love...
...Muslims understand that terrorists are a fringe element in the Muslim world, I still feel ashamed that such atrocities could emerge from among my people. While the whole world opposes the terrible evil of terrorism, the greater fight for the Muslim community is to wipe out that ugly blemish. At this moment, while feeling grief for all affected, I want to cry out to the world, "I am a Muslim. And like most of my fellow Muslims, I don't hate or kill non-Muslims. I love my non-Muslim friends dearly - including many Americans - as they love...
...image was so faint that scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., checked to make sure it was not the result of a blemish on the camera lens or static distorting the telemetry. But it was real, a tiny circle that represented a previously undiscovered moon only 35 miles in diameter, orbiting 37,500 miles above the murky atmosphere of the planet Uranus...
...Hyundai's staff. A premium had always been placed on making cars quickly and cheaply. Even Suh, who is in charge of Hyundai's quality-improvement efforts, admits, "When I first came to Hyundai, I too didn't think quality cars were important." But the new chairman made blemish-free manufacturing the top priority. To break down interdivisional barriers, Chung forced designers, engineers and factory managers to work as a team to weed out potential defects. Twice a month, Chung summons senior managers into a conference room at his Seoul headquarters to analyze reliability issues, sometimes bringing in a whole...
...even future captain Ryan J. Fitzpatrick ’05 would earn Harvard’s major ‘H’ distinction for his contributions that first year, despite orchestrating a 21-point second-half comeback against Dartmouth, salvaging the blemish-free campaign, and setting a school record for largest come-from-behind victory. (Tight end Adam Jenkins ’05 would be the only freshman designated as a major ‘H’ recipient...