Word: defection
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...only in recent years did researchers, using powerful new tools of molecular biology, learn that it is a defect in these worms' insulin systems that causes their long life...
Every year we are reminded in newspaper editorials and Undergraduate Council debates that Harvard lacks a student center, that this defect is a critical flaw in our lives as undergraduates and that we must work to create such a place. Although the idea of a building dedicated to the needs of undergraduates is at first glance appealing, is a fabulously impractical solution to problems that can be more easily resolved by modest measures. This annual and futile appeal for a building distracts us from the many workable ways to achieve what a student center might provide...
Nowhere is the siege worse than at Ford, where its top-selling Explorer is the target of increasing scrutiny. Now that Firestone has finally admitted that some of its recalled tires have a defect that causes their treads to separate, congressional investigators and personal-injury lawyers have switched to clamoring for answers about the safety record of the Explorer. Does its design increase the chances that a manageable tire blowout could turn into a fatal rollover...
...moving as good fiction. There's the story of Paula, who as a girl told Wallerstein, "I'm going to find a new mommy," and as a young woman--too young, it turned out--impulsively married a man she hardly knew. There's Billy, born with a heart defect, whose parents parted coolly and amicably but failed to provide for his pressing medical needs...
...three female Japanese interpreters in brightly colored suits hovered nearby. Ono offered a sharp contrast to the carefully scripted performance of Ford boss Jac Nasser, who would later pin the blame squarely on Firestone's tires. He was visibly uncomfortable, expressing regret on one hand, denying any tire defect on the other. And his watered-down apology incited a harsh response. Senator Richard Shelby, Alabama Republican, summed up the general sentiment by asking, "What does it take to put a company on notice that perhaps they've got a defective product out there...