Word: defectiveness
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...Democrats can pry an abortion stance out of Souter, the ensuing floor fight will expose the rift within the Republican party over abortion. It is possible that a significant number of Republican senators--unwilling to vocally fight against abortion and possibly forfeit reelection victories--could defect from the party-line. It happened with taxes, and it can happen with abortion, especially with elections right down the road...
Klieman disputed the prosecution's claim that Robyn's bowel obstruction, which was caused by a birth defect, could have been easily diagnosed and treated. Rather, the bowel can twist and untwist, making diagnosis difficult, she said...
...excelled at sea command and Pentagon maneuver, and reared five sons (four of whom are pursuing naval careers); his wife became an Episcopal minister four years ago. Poindexter was devoted to trying to thwart terrorists, free American hostages and bring democracy to Nicaragua. Nobody argued with those objectives. "No defect in character," declared a former Cabinet officer who worked with him. "But a defect in judgment. He should not be so punished for that...
...military was already upset about "losing" Eastern Europe. Now it looked as though Soviet power might be humiliated even within the borders of the U.S.S.R. Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, Gorbachev's personal military adviser, bluntly said that no setback would be more galling than "seeing our East German allies defect to NATO." Yevgeni Primakov, one of Gorbachev's closest associates on the Presidential Council, agreed in a conversation a few weeks ago: "A united Germany in NATO is something we just can't swallow...
...adoptive parents are saddled with an unforeseen defect, who should shoulder the load? Most experts put the onus on the adoptive parents. "Families, having decided to do an adoption, assume a certain risk," says Professor William Winslade of the University of Texas Medical School in Galveston. "If it is an incredibly difficult burden, it seems unfair not to give parents, who have provided the benefit to society by making the adoption, some special help. But I don't think the burden should be totally given back to the state either. Parents adopt because they want the joys -- and the sorrows...