Word: defections
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Perhaps like many consumers, John Benjamin, 36, a credit analyst from Oak Park, Ill., is experiencing the new wealth defect. He plans to shell out 30% less for gifts this year. "My spending habits are correlated to the performance of the market," he says. Others' behavior is correlated to their credit-card debt--and after a decade of buying, and saving next to nothing, Americans are cleaning up their balances...
...star searching for a comeback image - the Bush team decided on its plan. It would take all of Gore's perceived weaknesses and find a way to define them as all being part of the same character flaw. And the kicker would be that it was the same defect that the public had detected in Clinton...
...degree of development. The Furies, as Robertson calls them, are dramatic constants, little more than moving pieces of scenery in the story of Mary's fall from sanity. But this dramatic bracketing of the other characters on stage and the corresponding emphasis on Mary Girard is not a defect; it is most likely the very intent of Robertson's writing. It is her version of Bennett's recourse to Parliamentary politics...
...only in recent years did researchers, using powerful new tools of molecular biology, learn that it is a defect in these worms' insulin systems that causes their long life...
Every year we are reminded in newspaper editorials and Undergraduate Council debates that Harvard lacks a student center, that this defect is a critical flaw in our lives as undergraduates and that we must work to create such a place. Although the idea of a building dedicated to the needs of undergraduates is at first glance appealing, is a fabulously impractical solution to problems that can be more easily resolved by modest measures. This annual and futile appeal for a building distracts us from the many workable ways to achieve what a student center might provide...