Word: invalidism
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...will take no responsibility for those who have refused to take bids to Prospect. They consider any reasons for reusing as invalid...
Many of the assembled experts challenged the findings, declaring that Coleman had overstated his conclusions. Among the critics were staff members from NCES, the Government agency that sponsored the study. Their main point: some of his performance comparisons are invalid because 70% of private school students are college bound and pursue academic programs, compared with about a third of public school pupils (the rest are in vocational and commercial courses...
...economy last week behaved like a long-term invalid who has trouble believing his doctor's reports that he might actually be getting better rather than worse. Despite some conflicting symptoms, the economy continued to exhibit much more vigor than most observers had thought possible. This year, after all, was once widely expected to produce another recession. To be sure, some Cassandras, including several top officials in the Reagan Administration, warned that the economy's improvement was largely illusory and that a renewed bout of business stagnation might hit by this summer...
Final Payments had a simple and compelling story. Isabel Moore spends eleven years caring for a deeply religious and dying father. Her life during this time is inevitable and straightforward: "care of an invalid has this great virtue: one never has to wonder what there is to do. Even the tedium has its seduction: empty time has always been earned...
...somebody started fooling around with those damn bears. They are now squaring off-and should not be." Which means that the seal does not conform with its statutory definition. Which means, in turn, that every gubernatorial order stamped with the seal for nobody knows how many years may be invalid. "Perhaps not null and void," Barnes says, "but probably voidable. That would sure mean a bunch of paper work down the tube." Like any good politician, Barnes is fighting paper work with paper work: he plans a resolution that would affirm those hundreds of "voidable" acts -and correctly pirouette...