Word: partialities
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...NTSB issued a report finding that the FAA bore partial responsibility for last year's accident in which the top of an Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 tore apart in midair, killing a flight attendant. The FAA allegedly neglected to monitor carefully Aloha's maintenance procedures and failed to enforce closer inspections in the airline industry even after stress cracks had been found in older planes...
...such conundrum: Who should be held accountable for the Iran-contra affair? Last week a jury in Washington rendered a judgment on retired Marine Lieut. Colonel Oliver North. But it was a verdict equivocal enough for both the defendant and the prosecutor to hail it. North proclaimed a "partial vindication" because he was found not guilty of nine felony charges. Prosecutor John W. Keker asserted that North's convictions on three other counts demonstrated "the principle that no man is above...
Under the relief plan, borrowers could exchange current loans for new ones that would be smaller in principal or would pay lower interest rates. To give bankers an incentive to accept such arrangements, the IMF and the World Bank are debating whether to provide partial guarantees for some of the borrowers' interest payments...
...cooperation may be the partial result of the issues HUSO has picked for its focus. The HUSO motion calling for a student center endorsed a council resolution to the same effect, thereby underscoring the feeling of cooperation. As long as the council and HUSO agree, there is little basis for a political "turf war" between the two organizations...
These last entries are likely to attract most of the preliminary attention. The OED2 co-editors, John Simpson and Edmund Weiner, note that the generating ferment in English has shifted from the literary world toward those of science, business, medicine and North American slang. In fact, a partial listing of what the language has been up to lately is enough to inspire depression: brain-dead, nose job, right-to-die, acid rain, crack, heat-seeker, asset stripping, greenmail, petro-currency, barf, drunk tank. There is not much here that would inspire Keats to write...