Word: invalidism
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...first problem appeared when a former director of the Harvard Coop. Donald Steele, filed a suit against the Society which alleges that last spring's election for the Board of Directors is invalid. He claimed that a shift in elections from October to May "effectively disenfranchises" freshman voters because the elected representatives do not take office until the following fall...
Steele and Loss took issue over the disposition of last spring's nominating petition. Loss argued that a cursory examination had shown it to be invalid, and that a "rigorous check" by an outside law firm had confirmed the opinion...
...contract with the A.B.A. Virginia Squires. After a brilliant rookie season, Erving decided that he was being grossly underpaid. Last April he signed a five-year contract with the N.B.A.'s Atlanta Hawks for an estimated $1,500,000, subsequently alleging that his Squire contract was invalid...
...which are similar to those used in other dioceses: the petitioning Catholic must deem his existing marriage stable and binding; the risk of scandal arising from the return of the petitioner to Communion must be minimal; finally, the petitioner must in "good conscience" believe that his former marriage was invalid. His reasons for this must be of the kind that are unprovable in church tribunals. Such cases would include those where the former spouse is accused of fraudulent intent and is unwilling to talk, or where he was homosexual or impotent and declined to undergo the required psychiatric or medical...
...proceeding apace around you. The twins continue to play in the barn and plan their magic show while around them person after person dies in horrible circumstances due to the actions of the "bad" twin. Their insufferable cousin, jumping in the hayloft, lands on a carefully placed pitchfork. Their invalid mother is pushed down the stairs in the middle of the night when no one but them is there is to see. By day they are such charming creatures, uninterested by anything except their childish games, that an external spirit of evil seems to be lurking...