Word: invalidity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moreover, the grounds for annulment have been extended through sophisticated judicial interpretation. One historical reason for annulment, "lack of due discretion" on the part of one of the partners at the time of marriage, is now being applied with the insights of modern psychology. Some marriages have been declared invalid because one of the partners was deemed emotionally incapable of making the required commitment. As a result, the number of annulments granted in the U.S. has risen sharply, from about 650 four years ago to more than 3,000 last year...
...Barf) and a boy (Kipp Osborne) out on their first date are lured to a musty mansion in a Boston suburb by a middle-aged man and wife (Eileen Heckart and Arthur Kennedy) who act as caretakers of the estate. There the girl is slyly coaxed into impersonating an invalid named Veronica in a dress of 1935 vintage...
...quota was set at 2573 votes. A total of 26,217 votes were cast, 491 of which were found to be invalid...
After that, the election workers review each ballot for irregularities. Two years ago, nearly 700 ballots were declared invalid because voters did not mark them properly. For instance, if a voter marks an "x" or more than a single "1" on his ballot rather than enumerating his choices in order, his ballot is invalid under the PR system...
...Reserve Corps is, as I see it, the promotion of the warfare state and should therefore be abolished. The argument advanced by those who favor the restoration of the ROTC on the grounds that it is undemocratic to prevent those who want ROTC training from getting it is completely invalid for this reason: Public funds in large amounts are used in order to sustain the ROTC, which not only renders no public service, but does the exact opposite. This argument, it seems to me, is just as invalid as would be the argument that public funds should be paid...