Word: invalided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ordering the troops to return to their barracks. When they refused, he began negotiations with Rabuka, who had appointed himself chairman of the Council of Ministers. But when Chief Justice Sir Timoci Tuivaga condemned the coup and declared that Rabuka's suspension of the constitution was both "illegal and invalid," Ganilau canceled the swearing...
This, though, is a relatively small matter. Better to celebrate the rise to prominence of Harbison and fellow Symphonists Albert and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, who won her Pulitzer in 1983. Like Broadway, the symphony is a fabulous invalid: there is nothing wrong with it that a few good works cannot cure...
...year when I received the ballots for election to the Academy in March 1986. These ballots, as usual, present members with choices grouped by Classes. A member must vote for a minimum number of candidates in each class to fulfill certain quotas, otherwise the entire ballot is invalid. Thus each member is forced to take responsibility for candidates in entirely different fields, about whom one has no information except for a list of publication and honors contained in a booklet accompanying the ballot. However, I recognized one name under Class V, that of Samuel P. Huntington...
Still, there is in the midst of this strange scene some stirring of calm competency trying to assert itself, first and foremost from Nancy Reagan. When West Wing concerns began to rise because the sequestered invalid was being judged too dotty to resume his duties, she ignored those who urged her to push him out front before he was well enough. "Too many people I know who have had this operation have tried to do too much too soon," she said. "They had to go back to the hospital. I'm not going to have that happen now." That settled...
...base. Last week Communist Albania accomplished an astonishing record: almost perfect parliamentary elections. Every one of the country's 1,830,653 registered voters cast a ballot, and all candidates selected by the Albanian Labor Party won 100% of the votes counted. But alas, a single ballot was declared invalid by officials. Wait till next year...