Word: defectiveness
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...Supreme Court and Congress. In June, the high court ruled that Congress had granted the nation's 220 federal bankruptcy judges unconstitutionally broad powers in 1978 with the passage of the Federal Bankruptcy Reform Act. The court gave Congress a deadline of Oct. 4 to correct that defect. Since Congress could not or would not act in time, the court moved last week to prevent the bankruptcy courts from shutting down altogether by extending the deadline to Dec. 24. Meanwhile, many lawyers plan to delay filing any new bankruptcy petitions until after the court challenge is resolved...
...describe PFC Joseph White, who defected to North Korea [Sept. 13], as an earnest, straightarrow, all-American youngster, too shy to be popular, and unabashedly patriotic. That is just the point. Such a severely self-disciplined and rigid personality is exactly the type that would defect to more tyrannical conditions...
...however, the only thing more pathetic than the President's effort to blame the past for his own failure has been the Democrats response to the Great Communicator's logic-defying vertical onslaught. Most polls still defect a sizable--though diminishing--"give the man a chance" sentiment that the Democrats have not yet been able to dislodge. All of which may mean that the economy will have to get much worse before 1984 it Reagan himself is to be defeated. And if the economy actually improves, then Reagan will look just as prophetic as Tip O'Neill looks now which...
...been sent to the shop at least four times to have the same malfunction repaired or has been put out of service for 30 days. The new law is expected to encourage out-of-court settlements or, failing that, to make it easier to get favorable rulings against defective products by shifting to the automaker the burden of proving that it was not at fault. Manufacturers can avoid liability only by proving that the defect is not substantial, or that the problem came from owner negligence or from modifications the buyer made on the auto...
...When his father met him at the airport and told him to go to the Y.M.C.A., and when he took the bus, we took the bus." They even tried to calculate how much all this cost the rich drifter. To Lassiter, the janitor, the aimless meanderings indicated a mental defect. He argued: "Nobody, no matter how much money he has, would spend it like that. He pays a jet fare and stays a day. I can't see that." Countered Copelin: "Any time you can buy airplane tickets and go anywhere you want, and get money...