Word: defectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rejection is the spontaneous reaction," says Esser. "As children grow into society's system of norms, they also grow into pity." - Children dislike slightly handicapped youngsters more than gravely handicapped ones. Esser's explanation is that healthy children at first think of a child with a minor defect as an equal, but then are disappointed and angered when they find he cannot keep up. By contrast, a child on crutches or in a wheelchair is so "different" that the healthy child feels no sense of identification. ∧ Ignorance is a major obstacle to social contact with the handicapped...
...should be regarded as items, like fan belts, that must be regularly checked and serviced when necessary-although they rarely are on most cars. Yet the company apparently did not want to test that claim in court. Federal officials last week were preparing to issue a formal notification of defect. By announcing the recall, G.M. clearly hopes to avoid any legal entanglement resulting from problems with the engine mounts...
...decision was splendid. The dominating color, or noncolor, of the film is white. This creates the proper sensation of wintry old age and bleakness. The film gives off an almost palpable and desolating coldness, as if one were witnessing snow on the craters of the moon. But the defect of that virtue surfaces at the fulcrum of the play, which is the vast raging storm on the heath. The lashing rain seems incongruous in such an icy climate, and no one's thoughts should be remotely physical at that moment. Shakespeare has carried us to the butt...
Helpful Competitors. Sales were spurred by a buyer protection plan that the company introduced three months ago, covering all 1972 passenger cars for up to one year or 12,000 miles. American will have its dealers repair any factory defect at no cost to the owner. American also attracted buyers by refunding the federal excise tax, even though Congress has not yet repealed the levy. To get into the rapidly expanding recreation market, American two years ago bought Jeep Corp.; Jeep sales in the U.S. in fiscal 1971 increased by 6,573 units...
...feeling magnified by Craig's addiction was his sense of physical inferiority: a bout with polio at age two had left him with a shortened arm. The defect was so slight that most of his friends were not aware of it, and it did not keep him from becoming expert at tennis and skiing. Yet on the tape he said. "I've lived with my physical condition, but I really can't cope with it." In the end he even doubted his sanity: "After you've taken so much of that stuff, you just really...