Word: defective
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...they can help certain individuals who lack education, skills and training for productive employment. But they do not begin to solve the problems of automation and hard-core unemployment. They do nothing to put the people, as consumers, back in control of our economy. And they have the fatal defect of crippling the private, voluntary efforts which are essential to a full realization of their lofty goals...
...pregnant woman is knocked down by a car and injured. Can she recover damages? Certainly - if the driver was at fault. But what about the unborn child? If he is born with a defect caused by the accident, can he go to court and sue for injuries? Only a few years ago, the answer would have been no. Now, in many courts around the world, the answer would be a highly qualified yes. Writing in the Michigan Law Review, Dr. David A. Gordon, a South African lawyer, notes that the law in most Western nations is finally beginning to recognize...
...unborn plaintiff has such recovery rights against outsiders, the next obvious question is its legal position to its mother. As yet, the issue has not been tested. But some lawyers feel that if a child can prove that its mother negligently exposed it to a defect-causing disease, there is no reason why the child cannot sue its own mother-and collect...
...first, the defect was not serious-- played professional football it but a virus that sent the coach the hospital for two days last fall aggravated the condition...
Buck's piece was not written for the Review but was an old speech, reprinted. Similarly, Paul Deats, Jr.'s "The Problem of Liberal Education" was drawn from an address and as a result has both the asset of some bright rhetoric and notable phrasing and the defect of little depth and tightness. Deats, professor of theology at Boston University, asks the questions: what is a liberal education? is it possible? what hope is there for it? His definition is a fine summary of recent thought but in discussing the forces intruding on liberal education and the prospects for their...