Word: defectiveness
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What's Up, Tiger Lily? Woody Allen, as televiewers know, is an anonymous little giggle merchant who looks like a slight defect in the wallpaper pattern and makes funnies that are so far out they sink before the slow boats get there. One day, for instance, he appeared in public leading his pet ant on a leash. On other occasions he wondered evilly if Memorial Day poppies contain opium, tsked sympathetically about a resolutely modern painter who cut off his ear with an electric razor, revealed regretfully that he once owned a silver mine but it tarnished...
...appropriate civilian work, such as that of the Peace Corps. Opponents of this idea have quite rightly objected that no civilian alternative to the armed forces demands the potential sacrifice of the soldier on the battlefield: his very life. But there is a simple and obvoius remedy for this defect. Each month the percentage of war deaths should be determined, and this proportion of men engaged in nonmilitary national service should be selected at random and shot. Paul R. Chernoff...
...renewal represented by the Second Vatican Council, more and more young members of the church are deciding for themselves whether or not a teaching is valid for them. Unlike the time before the council, when an alienated Catholic felt that his choices were to still his doubts or defect, many Catholics today feel free to deny or ignore doctrines and yet also count themselves good members of the church...
...simply settled out of court with American Airlines for some $10,000.) In the Goldberg case, relaxing the privity requirement also imposed "strict liability" on the manufacturer. Under this principle, the plaintiff is not obliged to show that the manufacturer lacked foresight or was actually negligent in causing the defect. The plaintiff need only show that the product was faulty and that the injury occurred. In short, consumers are now entitled to assume that more and more products will work safely, as advertised, when normally used...
Tasteless Tipoff. Dysautonomia was not recognized as a separate disease entity until 1949, when Dr. Conrad M. Riley described several New York City victims and it was hard to distinguish from other inherited defects. Then, at New York University Medical Center, Dr. Joseph Dancis and Dr. Alfred Smith found that dysautonomia had one unique feature: its victims lacked taste buds in the front and, in most cases, in the back of the tongue as well. This defect in taste buds signals defects in other parts of the nervous system...