Word: defectively
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Thus began the deal that astonished the sports world last week: Miami Dolphin Running Backs Csonka and Kiick and Wide Receiver Warfield, stalwarts of the Dolphin dynasty, are going to defect to the Toronto Northmen of the W.F.L. the season after next, when their present contracts expire. To jump, they signed a joint contract that totals more than $3 million in salary, bonus money and benefits. Csonka will receive close to $1.4 million over a three-year period, Warfield $900,000, and Kiick $700,000 -three to four tunes more than they might have expected from the Dolphins. Further, they...
...similarly controversial dispute involves genetic influence on behavioral traits, Beckwith said. A recent English study found that a large number of overly-aggressive males with severe acne who became criminals had a genetic defect. From these findings, the scientists concluded criminality has a genetic basis...
...Baltimore three years ago, the parents of a newborn Mongoloid baby refused to allow an operation to correct a fatal defect in the infant's digestive tract. Despite pressure from doctors and hospital personnel, they refused to change their minds, and the child slowly starved to death...
...second reference to the Uher at another point in its report, the experts have little doubt that Miss Woods' machine was used for the erasures. They cannot say so with absolute certainty only because it is conceivable that some other recorder could have the same component defect and produce recording characteristics identical with those of "Exhibit 60." But they greatly doubt that possibility...
...Barnabas Hospital in New York. Cooper has found that stimulating the cerebellum electrically apparently increases its inhibitory action on the cerebrum. Cooper has implanted electronic "pacemakers" upon the cerebellums of several epileptics, as well as patients suffering from stroke-caused paralysis, cerebral palsy and from dystonia, a neuromuscular defect in which permanently flexed muscles twist and distort the limbs. The device, which stimulates the cerebellum with low-voltage jolts, has produced relief in most of the 70 cases in which it has been used. One muscular 26-year-old man suffered from daily epileptic seizures before he came to Cooper...