Word: defectiveness
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...impulse to murder seems to be universal, but the reasons that men and women yield to it are as varied and mysterious as human history. To most psychiatrists, murder usually implies a defect in the killer's ego. Sometimes, of course, the motive appears to be nothing more complicated than the desire for material gain. In family murders, a frequent motive is the killer's conviction that no one, not even his wife, understands him. Says Psychiatrist Frederick Melges: "He may expect empathy without communicating his feelings. Paradoxically, attempts at communication may lead to the discovery that...
...added that, despite the pressures, creativity in Russian literature had not been extinguished. "It really never occurs to them," he said, "that a writer who thinks differently from the majority of society represents an asset to that society, and not a disgrace or a defect...
...example, could have saved millions of dollars if it had paid attention to the adverse reports of G.M. proving-grounds employees about its trouble-plagued Corvair. Says James Hillier, an RCA executive vice president for research and engineering: "Every manager knows that the direct cost of repairing a defect after a product is sold tends to be anywhere from 20 to 50 times greater than the cost of repairing it in the factory. The additional and indirect cost arising from loss of customer support is much higher...
...learn that it pays to listen. Edward A. Gregory, a General Motors body-shop inspector, went to Ralph Nader after managers had refused to acknowledge his warnings about a carbon monoxide leak in Chevrolet bodies and had transferred him to other tasks. When Nader and Gregory publicized the defect, G.M. in 1969 had to recall 3,000,000 cars. G.M. not only gave Gregory a $10,000 savings bond for the suggestion that helped repair the defect, but he was reinstated in his old job, and has since pointed out other defects that have led to the recall of about...
...Chinese felt that if a defector was more important to the Americans than talking to China, then the U.S. must not have been too interested in negotiation anyway. There are several unknowns in this interpretation which may, in themselves, be answers. Was it only coincidence that Liao chose to defect barely a month before the Warsaw talks were to begin? Was it only chance that the clash with Soviet forces on the Ussuri River occurred searcely a week and a half after Peking had cancelled the negotiations, that is, only a short time after Moscow could be reasonably certain Sino...