Word: defectiveness
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...When he was 18 and in the Merchant Marine, William Fertig of Franklinville, N.J., entered the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital on New York City's Staten Island to have an eye defect corrected. But before surgery, Fertig suffered a rare reaction to a widely used general anesthetic. His body temperature rose and remained at 108°, long enough to cause extensive brain damage. As a result, Fertig, now 24, is blind, cannot speak, and is paralyzed from the neck down. After bringing suit against the Federal Government, charging that doctors at the hospital had not monitored the administration...
...wounded or captured. Reports filtered into the capital of remnants of three battalions, totaling 400 or 500 men, who surrendered en masse to the Khmer Rouge. Their action raises the suggestion that if things get much worse, large numbers of government troops might be tempted to surrender, vanish or defect to the other side...
...overkill of advertisements makes the "heartbreak of psoriasis" sound like something of a joke. But psoriasis is no laughing matter to those who are afflicted by it. The disease, which may result from a genetic defect, causes red, scaly eruptions-mainly on the scalp, elbows, knees, back and buttocks -and untold misery to its victims. In the U.S. alone, some 5 to 8 million psoriasis sufferers spend an estimated $1 billion a year in their search for relief...
...recently won from Rome an extended approval of simpler annulment procedures, which, among other things, no longer demand that a favorable decision by one matrimonial court always be confirmed by a second court. Moreover, more and more diocesan marriage tribunals recognize "psychic incapacity" in either partner as a fatal defect in the original marriage contract-an interpretation that has led to a sharp rise in the number of annulments granted. The liberality of the courts, however, can vary widely: in Brooklyn last year there were 575 annulments, in Boston only five...
Taking the case selection authority away from the Supreme Court was "the defect in the Freund plan," Bruce said...