Word: defective
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This was his first act of patriotism: refusing to defect. His reward: he was stripped of his team captaincy and given desk duty. He was threatened with exile to Siberia. He was beaten by government thugs. Using the Soviet court to sue the government, it turned out, wasn't very effective...
...recently in this column, the rich world has been stingy in making good on its promises to liberalize trade in agricultural commodities and textiles--precisely the goods in which the poor countries of the world typically have a comparative advantage. A "development round" of world trade talks addressing that defect would further decrease poverty...
...entire Core curriculum with a distribution requirement that “preserves the balance of the existing Core while removing the current system’s arbitrary obstacles.” Nearly all of the criticisms of the Core focus on the number of courses offered. From this main defect stems a laundry list of related complaints, including massive class sizes and conflicting lecture times...
...foreign aid worker put it. Those fighters cut a secret deal with Alliance commander Rashid Dostum to allow Dostum's cavalry to pour through the Taliban front line. After that, the Alliance achieved its rout of the Taliban in typical Afghan fashion: by bribing Taliban commanders to defect...
...what they once did best: battle a more powerful foreign force from redoubts in the mountains, where tanks can't go and helicopters crash. The surviving Taliban could still withdraw to avoid the hellfire of American strikes and then spring ambushes on towns and villages below. "They can defect, change their mind and go back," Rumsfeld said. "It is not possible to answer the question as to the circumstance of the Taliban." But their divisions are scattered, their hard-core fighters are few?Pakistani sources say 2,000 members, at most, of Omar's 50,000-strong force are still...