Word: defectiveness
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...Where defect is clear but fault cannot be proved, they say, loss should be borne by the party most able to afford it and to insure against...
...court ruled that injured consumers need not claim a theoretical "implied warranty" but may rely simply on "strict liability in tort." Said the court: "A manufacturer is strictly liable in tort when an article he places on the market, knowing that it is to be used without inspection for defects, proves to have a defect that causes injury to a human being...
...apprenticeship in the V.C.'s Women's Liberation Association, which functions in thousands of South Vietnamese villages. The W.L.A. is a kind of Viet Cong ladies' aid: besides nagging government officials, the ladies write letters to boys drafted into the South Vietnamese army urging them to defect, recounting wild tales of the government troops ravaging the folks back home...
...West Germany, likes to think of himself as having a wild-blue-yonder sense of humor. When his girl back home in Colorado wrote she wasn't going to visit him this summer, he wrote and told her he was so desolate that he was going to defect. The next letter she would get would be from the Kremlin, he added with gleeful literary pique...
...border guards, muttering about "passport irregularities," whisked him off his tour bus and back to Kiev. There he was slapped into a guarded hotel room and visited by three suave but hopeful Soviet agents, who, it seemed, read other people's mail. Now, if he really wanted to defect...