Word: defections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...honestly said to me, 'I wanted to kill you when you were born, because I felt so angry at myself and so terrible about the pain I knew you were going to have.' I'm not grim, but I'm still basically cringing from the defect. I remember kids sniggering and smirking-they called me Hopalong-and it has only been in recent years that I've pulled myself out of a certain anesthesia...
...Force Lt. Col. Mark Foutch said these "assets" are U.S. ships and planes, equipped with devices which can defect radiation...
...Justine Pinheiro, and that disappeared on an operating table in Minneapolis. On Nov. 5 the baby daughter of Charles and Marilyn Fiske of Bridgewater, Mass., underwent six hours of surgery that gave her a new liver and a good chance to recover from biliary atresia, a congenital liver defect that generally leads to death before the age of four. Justine Pinheiro is still waiting for a transplant to give her the same chance. The disparity in their fates raises one of the thorniest ethical questions facing modern medicine...
...Supreme Court and Congress. In June, the high court ruled that Congress had granted the nation's 220 federal bankruptcy judges unconstitutionally broad powers in 1978 with the passage of the Federal Bankruptcy Reform Act. The court gave Congress a deadline of Oct. 4 to correct that defect. Since Congress could not or would not act in time, the court moved last week to prevent the bankruptcy courts from shutting down altogether by extending the deadline to Dec. 24. Meanwhile, many lawyers plan to delay filing any new bankruptcy petitions until after the court challenge is resolved...
...describe PFC Joseph White, who defected to North Korea [Sept. 13], as an earnest, straightarrow, all-American youngster, too shy to be popular, and unabashedly patriotic. That is just the point. Such a severely self-disciplined and rigid personality is exactly the type that would defect to more tyrannical conditions...