Word: defectiveness
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While some incentives seem to pull in enough new jobs and taxes to recoup the lost revenues, other giveaways fail to do so. The pain is most acute when corporations pocket the money and then cut their work force or defect to a new location. New York City knows the feeling only too well. In a case that still rankles, it handed AT&T $20 million in tax relief in the 1980s, only to see the phone company later disconnect and move most of its corporate staff to New Jersey. Still, the city is frenetically defending its turf with handouts...
...opening statement, Sandel spoke of his perception that there is a defect in the content of American politics...
...pitcher Rene Arocha became the first Cuban national-team member to defect, and he soon established himself with the St. Louis Cardinals. There have been a few other defectors--Oakland Athletics pitcher Ariel Prieto and New York Mets shortstop Rey Ordonez--whom the Cubans tried to dismiss as second-rank malcontents. But when Fernandez got into Cubas' van last July, they could no longer make that claim. He was, after all, 22-0 in international competition, with a 1.62 era. And he was not considered a security risk...
...probably the player they least expected to defect," Fernandez said last week through Carlos Alfonso, the Giants bullpen coach who has been acting as his interpreter. "I am from Holguin, in the country, and nobody from the country had ever defected. Even though I began to think about it in 1993, I never told anyone, including my wife...
...case, Daubert v. Merrill Dow Pharmaceuticals, a woman who had a child with a birth defect sued the drug company, claiming the drug had caused the defect...