Word: defective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ultimate decision to defect was made while Orchestra Conductor Maxim Shostakovich, 42, and his son Dmitri, 19, a concert pianist, were on tour with the U.S.S.R. Television and Radio Symphony Orchestra in West Germany. Though Maxim Shostakovich seemed emotionally strained as he conducted a composition by his father, few if any in the audience the Bavarian city of Fürth suspected what was afoot. During a post-concert dinner party in a nearby Nuremberg hotel, the Shostakoviches eluded the Soviet functionaries guarding the exits and slipped away to the local police station. There Maxim announced their intention to stay...
...faulty item in the production process, they are encouraged to shut down the whole assembly line to fix it. Pressure to improve quality reaches beyond the shop floor and often pits entire plants of competing companies like Hitachi and Sony in furious statistical battles to produce the lowest defect rates for products...
...letters column includes this scolding reminder of Eagle's bottom-line purpose: "While a story on El Salvador's civil war was informative, the author neglected to mention whether the El Salvadoran Central Government was currently accepting American volunteers in its army." It is a defect that has been remedied in a single issue, for April is brimming with mercenary stories, including the exciting tales of those brave men who defend South Africa from "Cuban and East German backed guerrillas." Foreign Editor Al J. Venter has traveled to the front lines to send back this "World Exclusive." Obviously a writer...
Despite the low success rate for the procedure, "it presents little real danger for the mother except for minor interferences," Biggers, who published a report on test tube babies in yesterday's edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, said. The danger of increased genetic defects is not high and the risk "is certainly not greater than if a parent carries an inherited receissive defect and decides to have a child anyway," he added...
...defect most likely to result from the test tube conception is the production of an extra set of chromosomes, "but 99 per cent of defective embryos will die when they are transferred into their mother's womb," Biggers said, adding that even in normal pregnancies as many as half of all embryos are naturally aborted...