Word: defectiveness
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Tykocinski, who for eight years had been the ranking Polish diplomat in West Berlin, was the most important Communist to defect to the West in years. He was also one of the most puzzling. Known to fellow diplomats as "the Gypsy Baron," Tykocinski is a gregarious bear of a man who liked to claim he was "a socialist but not a Communist." Nevertheless, he enjoyed the full confidence of his government, for the Berlin post was obviously a major intelligence center, and last year he was awarded Poland's Commander Cross for outstanding services. Outside the PX last week...
...they can help certain individuals who lack education, skills and training for productive employment. But they do not begin to solve the problems of automation and hard-core unemployment. They do nothing to put the people, as consumers, back in control of our economy. And they have the fatal defect of crippling the private, voluntary efforts which are essential to a full realization of their lofty goals...
...pregnant woman is knocked down by a car and injured. Can she recover damages? Certainly - if the driver was at fault. But what about the unborn child? If he is born with a defect caused by the accident, can he go to court and sue for injuries? Only a few years ago, the answer would have been no. Now, in many courts around the world, the answer would be a highly qualified yes. Writing in the Michigan Law Review, Dr. David A. Gordon, a South African lawyer, notes that the law in most Western nations is finally beginning to recognize...
...unborn plaintiff has such recovery rights against outsiders, the next obvious question is its legal position to its mother. As yet, the issue has not been tested. But some lawyers feel that if a child can prove that its mother negligently exposed it to a defect-causing disease, there is no reason why the child cannot sue its own mother-and collect...
...first, the defect was not serious-- played professional football it but a virus that sent the coach the hospital for two days last fall aggravated the condition...