Word: inherit
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...geneticist David Housman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a member of one of the research teams. "Should they be informed?" A man or woman with such a defect will have to consider the brutal fact that not only is there a fifty-fifty chance that a child will inherit the illness, but also that the disease may be progressively worse in that child, the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren...
...furnishings fill the small stage, but director Polly Hogan exploits it by having the actors traverse across and around it. During a scene when Manders remarks about the resemblance between father and son, he, Oswald, and a portrait of Mr. Alving fall into line to highlight that Oswald has inherited the countenance of his sire. Contrarily, his mother had hoped that her son would inherit nothing from a father who led a dissolute life...
...situation holds promise as well as threat. Four republics -- Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belorussia -- stand to inherit all the long-range strategic warheads and perhaps 90% of the tactical weapons. The republics talk , of dismantling many of these arms; Ukraine and Belorussia insist they eventually want no nukes whatsoever on their soil. But it is by no means certain that the republics can agree, among themselves and with what remains of Mikhail Gorbachev's Kremlin government, on any program for actually achieving those aims before the momentum of dissolution leads to far different results: bitter squabbles over who controls...
Whoever wins on Nov. 16 will inherit a spate of challenges: social, environmental, political and, above all, economic. For all the charm of the French Quarter and the sparkling new downtown hotels, New Orleans faces some of the worst urban problems of any U.S. city. With the local economy gripped by a decade-long recession, big industry is disappearing; the river port is languishing; schools are crumbling; the tax base is shrinking; the regional jobless rate stands at 6.8%. Drugs and crime run rampant in many neighborhoods, and the murder rate is among the nation's highest. "The jails...
...saddens me that this is the country we might give to our children to inherit," he said...