Word: partiality
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...breakthrough achieved by Siemionow and her team was a longtime goal in facial surgery. Partial face transplants had been successfully performed by teams in France in 2005 and 2007 and in China in 2006, all on patients who had been disfigured either by animal attacks or disease. But no one had ever attempted a procedure on the scale undertaken by the Cleveland team...
Although my testers were partial to the Zi6's 2.4-in. LCD screen (they deemed the Mino's 1.5-incher "small" even for 11-year-old eyes), they felt the Kodak unit was too confusing overall. They didn't understand the "extra buttons"--a teensy joystick and two buttons that allow you to record, play back and delete, as well as zoom or switch to lower, less-memory-consuming video quality. They abandoned the Kodak after half an hour...
...everyone is ready to heed the warning. A weeklong international meeting to save the species ended in splenetic arguments Monday night, as European officials thwarted a proposal by the U.S. and environmental groups to impose a partial moratorium on bluefin-fishing and to drastically reduce catch quotas...
...first state to adopt a public-smoking ban, had the greatest decline in lung-cancer death rates in the U.S. - 2.8% per year from 1996 through 2005, which was twice the decline of many Midwestern and Southern U.S. states. Kentucky, which has low excise taxes on cigarettes and only partial smoking bans, had the country's highest lung-cancer incidence and mortality rates; it also had the highest percentage of cigarette smokers: nearly 30% of its adult population...
...understood he would have to keep it confidential; and that he still agreed to hear it. But the day after charges were filed, Cuban's attorney posted an entry on Cuban's blog bluntly saying, "There was no agreement to keep information confidential." The post also included a partial transcript of an exchange between Mamma.com's former CEO and Cuban's lawyer in which the ex-CEO said he didn't remember Cuban agreeing to confidentiality. That account is completely at odds with the conversations and e-mails presented in the SEC complaint, including a version of the phone call...