Word: defections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mixture of comradely good will and testy jealousy. Inevitably he resented the contrast drawn between us by the media. He had been associated with Nixon for too long for the President to tolerate on his part social contacts and attitudes that in my case were treated as a congenital defect. Torn between his prohibited predilections to conciliate and his political survival, Ehrlichman adopted a supercilious manner. Outsiders considered it a mark of arrogance; its real fount was ambivalence...
Tentative, or under "Consideration," stand her times, and those of many other swimmers in the meet, because the AIAW has not yet set definite cutoff marks. The governing body, under seige warfare with the NCAA, is uncertain how many members will defect to its rival before Nationals, and how many swimmers consequently will be available to fill event quotas...
...does the rate of birth defects. A woman is twice as likely to give birth to a defective child at age 40 as she was at 25 and five times as likely after 45. One possible explanation is aging eggs. A human female is born with about 2 million immature eggs, or oöcytes. Between puberty and menopause about 400 of them will mature into fertile eggs, a process that involves halving the number of chromosomes during cell division. According to theory, the older the oöcyte when it undergoes division-and in a 40-year...
...thinks the cybernetic revolution has failed its promise by simply trying to mimic applied human intelligence. He labors to create disobedient devices: "If I present you with a machine that extracts square roots from even numbers but doesn't want to from odd numbers, that's no defect, damn it, that's an achievement...
...Austria reimposes visa requirements on Poles, cutting off the principal avenue of escape for Poles seeking to defect to the West...