Word: defectiveness
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...Responsibility for environmental and consumer safeguards. GM continued to show why such confidence is wrongly given when this December it had to be ordered by the Department of Transportation (with a little help from Ralph Nader) to notify the 250,000 owners of GM and Chevy pick-ups of defective wheel dises in 1960-65 models. GM throughout has maintained that the defect did not exist...
...realized that the Lithuanian was a genuine defector, was loath to return him, and did so under direct order from Admiral Ellis. While in radio contact with Captain Brown, Eustis said: "I have talked a great deal with the individual . . . I believe he is sincere in his intention to defect to this country. The defector is definitely in fear of his life. At this time, indications are that regardless of what we do, he will go over the side [if we hand him back] as soon as we depart this area...
...love and death in a New England barn, and has sold more than 800,000 hardback copies. Charlotte succeeded in making a small, confused pig-of-good-will and a humane spider touching and unforgettable. Trumpet somewhat less successfully attempts the Bildungsroman of a trumpeter swan with a speech defect. As a cygnet, young Louis has to be furnished with a store-bought trumpet, and soon tootles his way into many hearts and places. White's main achievement, though, is Louis' father, a cultivated cob who talks a brand of rhetoric such as might come of an alliance...
...some of which the book tries to develop. How much of present widespread violence can be attributed to poor impulse control? And how many of these cases are related to brain malfunctions? If an individual's threshold for violent action is low, is it due to a gross cerebral defect, such as a tumor? Or is it the result of progressive environmental influences, such as living in a lower-class urban environment or watching violent television programs, which might create a cerebral predisposition to violence on a molecular (memory-bank) level...
Despite the number of beginners, the club has several accomplished gymnasts, Emery describes Brian Eisenberg as having "as many tricks as any other ring man in the country." Eisenberg, who suffers from a congenital birth defect, loses points in competition because he cannot dismount from the rings without the aid of an assistant...