Word: invalidity
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...your childhood. How so? My father and my mother, I now see, were very much done in by World War I. My father was always so mingled with rage at his life. He got severe diabetes, and a whole lot of other ills come with that. He became an invalid and passive, which was not his nature at all. It took me a very long time to see that I'd never really known...
...banging against its rocky sides," and reminisces about him hobbling over tree stumps and up hills to keep watch as she explored the veldt. In Alfred's imagined life, she makes him the successful farmer he wanted to be, and rids him of the diabetes that rendered him an invalid and eventually killed him. For good measure, says Lessing, she gave him "a nice, sexy wife, which he would have liked...
...November 3 status. Before it was dismissed, the Supreme Court was debating the legitimacy of Musharraf's October 7 election as President, citing a constitutional breach. If the court reconvenes in the same formation, it is likely to take up the case again, and could declare Musharraf's presidency invalid. "The Supreme Court will decide whether his election was legitimate or not," says Rashid. "Certainly, he took the wrong legal course to reelect himself. So, he has to face the music...
...that people seem to know about BlackCAST is that, ‘Oh, you’re that theatre group that only has black people in it and only does black plays.’ Yes, we only do black plays, but the other part of that is completely invalid, and I don’t know where that comes from. A third of our cast for our spring production last year was white, and I think that says something.” “By the black community it’s very much respected and very much...
...estimated that the industry needs 400 pilots a year but produces only about 100. While new training schools are being set up, nearly a quarter of India's 2,300 pilots are foreigners. Due to the shortage, there have been several reported cases of pilots with invalid licenses or who should be in retirement but continue to serve. An air passengers' organization has also been campaigning against what it calls lax health checks for expatriate pilots who are given temporary, six-month licenses...