Word: invalidity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fluctuating health bulletins from Gemelli, before the operation, prompted speculation in the press that John Paul might do the unthinkable and abdicate, rather than limp along as a semi-invalid Pope confining his actions to the minutiae of the Vatican bureaucracy. There had even been talk of a new papal conclave. This time around, the early favored papabili were Italians who have reputations as seasoned administrators. One was Casaroli, a moderate who has gained exposure as John Paul's loyal second in command. The other: Giovanni Benelli, 60, the conservative, often abrasive Archbishop of Florence, who was runner...
...with results that only benefit the charlatans who run them. Other chapters examine UFOs, especially the Hollywood variety, take a deadpan look at some of the tainted fathers of such contemporary fads as biorhythms and faith healing, and show why so many of the latest claims of E.S.P. are invalid or fraudulent...
Dashiell Hammett was boru in Saint Mary's County, Maryland, in May of 1894 and died 67 years later a few hundred miles north in New York City. In the intervening years he was a detective, an invalid and one of Faulkner's drinking partners. He annoyed Hemingway, raised the wrath of the McCarthyites, fought in two wars, went to jail and revolutionized the now well-known genre of detective fiction. From Red Harvest through The Maltese Falcon. The Thin Man and a hundred more short stories, he developed and became the epitome of the hard-boiled but literate writer...
...Japanese findings were already disputed by the Tobacco Institute, the industry's lobbying organization. The institute says that three U.S. statisticians who were asked to review the report discovered an error in how the data were analyzed and judged the study's conclusions "invalid." But one of the statisticians, Nathan Mantel of George Washington University, says that while his review raised questions about the study, it did not draw any firm conclusions. Says he: "The institute has put words in my mouth...
...named Robert Edwards, who was charged with robbery, burglary and murder. At his first interrogation, Edwards requested a lawyer. Next day, though Ed wards had still seen no attorney, he talked to two detectives and implicated himself in the crimes. That admittedly voluntary confession, wrote Justice Byron White, was invalid because it had not been established that Edwards waived his right to counsel "intelligently and knowingly." White went on to announce a new rule: once a suspect invokes his right to remain silent until he consults a lawyer, he cannot undo it unless he himself "initiates further communication...