Word: invalidity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biggest and best-known corporate invalid in America is International Harvester Co. The farm-implement and heavy-truck manufacturer has never recovered from a bitter 172-day strike that ended in 1980. Last year the company lost $393 million, and it expects to be $518 million in the red in 1982. Early this month International Harvester told its creditors that it would soon be in technical default on $4.2 billion in loans because its net worth would drop below $1 billion. Although the lenders could push the company into bankruptcy at any time, they are not expected to take that...
...Medical Area has been considered a separate bargaining unit from the rest of the University since a 1977 National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruling. The recent reorganization of personnel offices would make that ruling invalid. Daniel D. Cantor, the University's director of personnel, said yesterday...
Glemp branded as "unethical" and "invalid" the government's demands that Poles sign loyalty oaths and renounce their membership in the suspended Solidarity union federation. He deplored the deaths of workers killed in clashes with troops-17, according to authorities, although unofficial estimates range as high as 200. Glemp also condemned the prolonged internment of thousands of workers and intellectuals who had been rounded up in the crackdown. Said he: "We would not like to see a society divided into the authorities, who order and coerce, and subjects, who are silent and who hate...
...lesser extent artists on Broadway and off, prove that it can make vital theater. The challenge ahead is to reconcile these opposites, and to do it on Broadway. "Broadway at its best gives the best people the resources to do their best," says Prince. The Fabulous Invalid cannot be killed off by an overdose of mediocrity; it can be rehabilitated by frequent injections of imagination and daring. As long as someone has a story to tell or a song to sing, and as long as someone else is willing to sit down and listen?for two hours...
...Harvard aggravated the tension. In mid-October, a preliminary report on Harvard admissions prepared by an assistant to Bok was disclosed. The report said that high test scores often overpredict the academic performance of women and minorities at schools like Harvard, a finding which Third World students called "invalid" and "racist." In early November, the president of the Black Students Association, Lydia P. Jackson '82, received a death and rape threat from an as yet undetermined caller warning her to refrain from "political activities...