Word: invalidity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...named Frank Kallas, initially seemed to be no problem; she said Kallas was dead. But then, only two days after the wedding to Carey, he turned up again, alive and just about to open a restaurant in Califor nia. Mrs. Carey contends her Kallas marriage was invalid in any case because he was married to someone else at the time...
...Allegheny Mountains town of White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., gained a reputation as a healing center in 1778, when Amanda Anderson, long a rheumatic invalid, was placed gently into a hollowed-out tree trunk and slowly immersed in the sulfurous waters of a local spring. Suddenly she jumped out of the trunk and shouted, "I'm cured! I'm cured!" Last week, at White Sulphur Springs' stately Greenbrier resort hotel, the State Department quizzed and counseled 31 of the 53 Americans who had been held hostage in Iran. After three days of therapy and relaxation, however, none...
...will take no responsibility for those who have refused to take bids to Prospect. They consider any reasons for reusing as invalid...
Many of the assembled experts challenged the findings, declaring that Coleman had overstated his conclusions. Among the critics were staff members from NCES, the Government agency that sponsored the study. Their main point: some of his performance comparisons are invalid because 70% of private school students are college bound and pursue academic programs, compared with about a third of public school pupils (the rest are in vocational and commercial courses...
...economy last week behaved like a long-term invalid who has trouble believing his doctor's reports that he might actually be getting better rather than worse. Despite some conflicting symptoms, the economy continued to exhibit much more vigor than most observers had thought possible. This year, after all, was once widely expected to produce another recession. To be sure, some Cassandras, including several top officials in the Reagan Administration, warned that the economy's improvement was largely illusory and that a renewed bout of business stagnation might hit by this summer...