Word: invalidity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Durban, meanwhile, a three-judge Supreme Court panel struck a body blow at the country's ten-week-old state of emergency. On Monday it ruled that two key provisions of the emergency regulations concerning arrests and detentions were invalid. The court held that Botha had overstepped his bounds by empowering security forces to detain without charge anyone considered to be a threat to public order. The suit had been brought on behalf of Solomon Tsenoli, a black detainee who was arrested June 12. After Tsenoli was released, there was a rush of activity in all four provinces as lawyers...
Powers also says that Bozzotto fails to distinguish between valid and invalid workers' problems, and fights for anyone who complains. "We've had more arbitration with Local 26 than with all the other unions combined," he says. "Because of his ideological orientation, he sees management as the enemy instead of another person, and he refuses to compromise...
...political science, anthropology, literature and other fields. They have focused on one part of their discipline, such as "women in literature" just as a biologist may specialize in genetics. They gain further insight through interdisciplinary approaches. Unless Mr. Wise wishes to assert that the above mentioned academic fields are invalid or that interdisciplinary approaches, such as the Social Studies concentration here at Harvard, are academically invalid he has no basis to assert that women's studies are academically invalid...
...issue of "sensitivity," it is an issue of recognizing a valid academic discipline. Since Wise not only does not, but I believe can not show that women's studies is not academically valid, his argument that this is just a political move is unwarranted. If the discipline were invalid there is no reason to be ashamed of the support it has received from political trends. That would be like calling the admission of women into institutions of higher education merely a political move that was academically invalid, just because the admissions were achieved with the help of "socio-political fortune...
...confident that the videotaping process doesn't distort classroom situations that would make the ensuing observations invalid," Boehrer says. "After a few minutes, TFs [teaching fellows] lose track of the fact of being taped...