Few plantations, however, can afford the sophisticated equipment needed to create defect-free supplies.
At Dow Chemical, someone censored details about the company's birth-defect-inducing Agent Orange.
They give up, he says, and in the process form nearly defect-free structures that exhibit incredible bonds with the surface of the metal.
Because their dominant culture of 99% defect-free operational excellence squashes any attempts at innovation just like a Sumo wrestler sitting on a small gymnast.
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The program--known as the clunky "At the Customer, For the Customer"--taps the parent company's wealth of expertise in the vaunted Six Sigma defect-reduction method, just-in-time manufacturing and such management pursuits as succession planning.
Earlier this month Italian prosecutors requested a new corruption trial against Mr Berlusconi, saying he had allegedly bribed a left-wing senator to defect to his right-wing People of Freedom party (PDL) in 2006.
Bartlett that federal law preempts design-defect claims against the manufacturer of a generic drug.
Other studies of the topiramate in Qnexa have suggested an increased birth-defect risk.
But when Senator McCain is matched against Senator Clinton, only roughly 10 percent say they will vote - defect to Senator McCain.
The federal government gave the only intellectually honest answer to that question: design-defect claims are preempted because they conflict with the federal drug approval process.
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The pending Bartlett case will determine whether Mensing applies to design-defect claims and whether it requires a finding that such claims against generic drug manufacturers are similarly preempted.
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Others have showed up to defect in such far-flung locales as Qatar, Fiji, Djibouti and Mauritius.
Mr Smith said surgeons found an additional heart defect during the operation - a 'shelf' of tissue which had to be removed.
The vast majority of colorblind people have trouble seeing red or green, due to a genetic defect in the color-sensing cells, called cones, at the back of the eye.
"Farouq al-Sharaa did defect, but we were trying to get him through to Jordan, " Miqdad told CNN on Saturday.
Investigators are constantly being called in to sniff out traitors selling critical business information to the competition, or plotting to defect with the crown jewels - such as the client list, or details of products in development.
But in 1991 British researchers identified a gene defect that causes rare, early-onset Alzheimer's.
The other option was for love-struck Juliets to defect to the East, and several did.
Jennings joins safety Darren Sharper, kicker Ryan Longwell and, of course, quarterback Brett Favre as high-profile Packers to defect to Minnesota.
The district court granted judgment for Wyeth, holding that Section 22(b)(1) of the Vaccine Act expressly preempts all design defect claims arising from a vaccine-related injury.
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Intel thinks it has nailed the 32-nanometer process: It reports that defect rates for the first chips in its development factories are comparable to what it saw when it switched to 45-nanometer technology two years ago, a transition that went smoothly.
Grey speculated that a manufacturing defect could have triggered a physical short-circuit, which caused heating, released oxygen and led to a fire.
One in three women with a history of pre-eclampsia carried the exon 3 defect.
Over the next five days, she remained in a medically induced coma, she told CNN, and doctors diagnosed her with a heart defect she didn't know she had -- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
At issue is whether a heart-plug procedure to repair a birth defect that is common in about a quarter of the U.S. population can prevent strokes in young people.
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Among other things, the legislation calls on the State and Defense Departments to use existing funds for ongoing programs to encourage non-indicted LRA fighters and abductees to defect from the group and to rehabilitate children and youth affected by Kony's actions.
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Fraser was born with the congenital liver defect biliary atresia, and when he was just six- weeks-old he underwent an operation to correct the problem.
The precocious 6-year-old was born with a congenital heart defect and had a complication with a tube inserted in his right leg, leading to an amputation above his knee.
London, England (CNN) -- A baby born with a severe birth defect put its parents on opposing sides in a British court Monday over whether to switch off the child's life support.
Katie Couric will defect from the CBS Evening News before her contract is up--and CBS won't be unhappy about it.
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