Word: defectiveness
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...Demirel's Justice Party of 13 members. They were annoyed because Demirel had refused to dismiss a so-called Mafia of arrogant party officials. "A group of incompetent Deputies is always around Demirel; you can't eliminate them," sniffed former Public Works Minister Orhan Alp, explaining his defection. Other J.P. members were angry at Cabinet ministers affiliated with the National Salvation Party, minority members of Demirel's ruling coalition. "They are treating us like second-class citizens," complained one. The dissidents were emboldened to defect after Ecevit's party won 100 of 150 contested urban mayoral...
...last. And, as so often in O'Neill, Poet has centripetal force and centrifugal wastefulness, giant strength and giant sprawl, sure theatrical instincts and shaky dramatic structure. The present revival at Broadway's Helen Hayes Theater is like a tidal wave that seems to purge almost every defect of the play...
...also came to Harvard with a fledgling sense of injustice, an awareness that my need to hide was brought on by a defect in society, not in me. It was society that was at fault and to blame for my unhappiness...
...home county of Queens. Among ethnic blocs, only white Catholics voted heavily for Cuomo, an Italian American. Jews went overwhelmingly for Koch, who also won a majority of the black and Hispanic districts. Cuomo vowed to fight on as the Liberal Party nominee, but supporters, including Carey, began to defect, taking campaign dollars with them. The G.O.P. candidate, State Senator Roy Goodman, has only a small base of support in a city where Democrats outnumber the Republicans...
Unfortunately, the defect proved insufficient. Some of the descendants of the new microbe mutated naturally and began manufacturing their own DAP. So Curtiss went a step further and deleted another gene involved in DAP production. These newly designed bugs remained DAPless. But more frustration awaited Curtiss: the mutants managed to survive and multiply even without DAP. How? Dennis Pereira, a graduate student who worked with Curtiss on the project, discovered that they were producing a sticky substance called colanic acid that held them together in the absence of their normal outer coat. By manipulating still another of the microbe...