Word: defectiveness
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...order to win acquittal. Judge Parker chose to use the stricter guidelines in order to avoid giving the defense technical grounds for appeal. This put the burden of proof on the prosecution. A person is defined as insane, he instructed, if he, "as a result of mental disease or defect, either lacked substantial capacity to conform his conduct to the requirements of the law or lacked substantial capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct...
Demoralized by a succession of reversals in recent months, the Free Democratic Party could be tempted to defect from its partnership in the federal government with the Social Democrats and go into alliance with the Christian Democrats, also leaving Schmidt in the lurch. Already, in preparing for next September's election in the state of Hesse, the Free Democrats are actively considering running in partnership with the Christian Democrats. Meanwhile, the Hamburg election has left the city-state without a government, since neither the Social Democrats nor the Christian Democrats have a majority, and neither group is eager...
...mental toughness of a champ. If Stallone is a man of steel, he is scarcely a man of irony, and he handles Rocky III as he has handled all of his writing and directing efforts, with heart-in-the-right-place primitivism. That is not necessarily a defect in movies that depend for effectiveness on walloping blows to the audience's emotional solar plexus. Stallone is unabashedly faithful to his character and his friends. The old gang is reassembled. Talia Shire is freshly steadfast and inspirational as Rocky's wife Adrian, Burgess Meredith is back as the wizened...
...team first constructed an artificial gene that could replace the instructions of a faulty gene subunit that was causing beta thalassemia. When frog egg cells were then injected with both the man-made instructor and the defective genetic material, the fault was corrected. The successful experiment, published in the British journal Nature, marks the first reported time an artificially constructed gene has been successfully used to correct a human genetic defect...
...inspectors believe the toxin that killed Malthay entered the container through tiny holes accidentally punched by can-forming equipment made by American Can Co. The firm is working to correct the defect. Says Eric Eckholm, executive director of the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute: "We must get the American public to understand that this was a problem with the can and not the product. The failure was with the mechanical process." Meanwhile, Miller has proposed a $5 million campaign to stress the safety of eating Alaska salmon...