Word: defections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impotence. Helicopters that won't fly in the desert, fly fine on a screen. Video games taste of power without purpose, like the smell of napalm in the morning. Our national naval gazing has led us to wish for more submarines, a resurgence of might that cannot remedy the defect of leadership determined to defend rights it only vaguely states. Like bigger defense budgets, video games, a projection of this shadowy pornography of power, curses rather than cures our seeming impotence...
...tautological: "I make no claim to special sensitivity, but I am increasingly aware of a strong negative reaction inside me to people whom I feel, on first meeting, to be in some way negatively directed: to have too large a proportion of malice, or envy, or some other defect that disables their personalities." By necessity, the severest criticisms of the Vatican come not by the design of the author, but rather by the little absurdities that creep through the narrative. Nichols, for example, dryly sets forth the procedure for papal selection; he hardly mentions the irony of a ballot system...
...candidates that depend heavily on upper-class West Cambridge--that is, all the CCA candidates except David Sullivan, and minor challenger Bob White--will be reduced by the strong slate. Traditional Duehay voters now have an attractive new variety of faces to choose from, and almost certainly some will defect...
Careful reasoning and analysis. Calling the dearth of this "the most serious defect of undergraduate education everywhere," Bok said the College should do more to improve students' reasoning abilities. The undergraduate curriculum should include more opportunities for active student involvement--which sections and tutorials provide more than do large lectures, Bok said...
...punishable by death, this defense often was the only way to spare someone from the gallows. Over the years, the standard became more cumbersome. The M'Naghten rule, devised by the English in 1843, declared that a defendant was not culpable if he "was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong...