Word: invalidity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Donovan said that the possible delay of the primary elections--because of a judge's recent ruling that all the newly designated voting districts are invalid--should give canvassers an opportunity to reach even more people...
...nuclear plants 4 and 5 under contracts that obligated them to pay for the reactors whether or not they produced electricity. When work stopped more than a year ago because of escalating costs and an inability to get more financing, the utilities refused to pay and declared the agreements invalid. The state supreme court went along. It ruled that the utilities did not have the authority to enter into the accords in the first place, because they were putting their ratepayers at risk for the construction costs...
Aaron says he will be completing work on his five-year project of editing the diaries of Arthur Inman, an invalid who believed he could win immortality by keeping an honest diary of himself and his world. Inman did so from 1919 until he committed suicide in 1963. After the diaries are published by the Harvard University Press next semester, Aaron will teach at the University of Texas for one semester...
...supported alternative is the good-faith exception now before the court. The proposal has already been adopted by at least two federal appeals courts and three states. If the Supreme Court approves such an exception, it could be limited to searches conducted with warrants that turn out to be invalid, as in the Gates case. The exception could also apply any time police were able to prove they had acted in good faith...
...ENCHANTED world they create for themselves soon shatters. Hallie receives a phone call from his mother saying she is bringing his invalid father home from the hospital. The thought of late nights massaging the man's withered legs terrifies the boy as he sees his period of tranquility coming to an abrupt end. "Just when you're enjoying yourself someone comes along and weeks everything," he says despondently. The father's drinking compounds further the horror for his young...