Word: defective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mainstream, Ms. and Mother Jones have not had as clear a path. Named after turn-of-the-century labor organizer Mary Harris Jones, Mother Jones established itself as a passionate muckraker with a 1977 expose that alleged Ford had been aware of what turned out to be a fatal defect in its Pinto. Over the years the magazine has gradually increased its cultural coverage, a trend that will continue in its new incarnation. But the new Mother Jones will also try to appeal to its older readers by introducing columns about politically correct travel and even personal finance. Whereas...
...politics. The Democrats ceded their hold on the George Wallace crowd when they declared war on Jim Crow back in the 1960s, and the Republicans have accepted them into the fold without protest. House Republican leader Robert Michel (III.) made that clear when he noted that Reagan Democrats would defect to Bush when they "look at the Democratic convention out there and see the one-third Blacks in that composition of delegates...
...Nazaro, 23, a Ukrainian from Uzhdano, was captured by the Afghan insurgents while serving with a reconnaissance unit in the northern town of Kunduz in 1984. Private Leonid Vilko, 24, a Moldavian stationed at Bagram air base north of Kabul, was taken prisoner the same year while trying to defect to the West...
...love of my life . . . We hope to be able to live out the rest of our lives together." The mayor had admitted unspecified marital "difficulties" in his 19-year marriage to high school sweetheart Mary Alice. They have three children, including a son born last year with a heart defect. The stunning disclosure came after months of rumors about his extramarital love life and only a month after Cisneros declared he would not seek a fifth term. As observers were quick to point out, in a constituency with a Roman Catholic and Hispanic majority, his revelations about Linda, an Anglo...
...pregnant in the second year of medical school," said Klass. "I had learned about every genetic defect, I had learned about reproduction, but I knew nothing about normal pregnancies. I began to feel as if pregnancy was a weakness...