Word: defect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even over Cuba, the gold-medal winner in Barcelona. For one thing, coach Skip Bertman's squad is largely intact from the team that beat Cuba in four straight exhibitions last year. For another, Cuba seems to have chosen players less for their ability than for their likelihood to defect. The U.S. stars could be starter Kris Benson and outfielder Mark Kotsay...
...messages today: the message that science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice; that the Federal government, much maligned in current politics, can be a powerful force for public benefit; that the government can work productively with universities, where the cellular defect in cystinosis was studied, and with industries, where the new drug was manufactured; and finally, that progress in medical science occurs at a pace that may seem slow at the time to desperate parents, but astoundingly rapid in retrospect. Just consider: in the space of a generation, this lethal disease...
While some incentives seem to pull in enough new jobs and taxes to recoup the lost revenues, other giveaways fail to do so. The pain is most acute when corporations pocket the money and then cut their work force or defect to a new location. New York City knows the feeling only too well. In a case that still rankles, it handed AT&T $20 million in tax relief in the 1980s, only to see the phone company later disconnect and move most of its corporate staff to New Jersey. Still, the city is frenetically defending its turf with handouts...
...opening statement, Sandel spoke of his perception that there is a defect in the content of American politics...
...probably the player they least expected to defect," Fernandez said last week through Carlos Alfonso, the Giants bullpen coach who has been acting as his interpreter. "I am from Holguin, in the country, and nobody from the country had ever defected. Even though I began to think about it in 1993, I never told anyone, including my wife...