Word: invalidity
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That possibility rests on two invalid assumptions. The first is that the medical profession is dominated by money-grabbing scoundrels who will never let the profession heal itself. The second is that the way to repair it is to infuriate patients into action by painting all doctors as evil, incompetent and greedy...
...nationwide operation that lifted cloth in wholesale lots from textile factories, sold garments fashioned from it at black-market prices. Behind it all, charged Trud, was one M. Rabinovich, 43, a textile engineer who had launched his nefarious enterprise 20 years ago by stealing from a Moscow mill employing invalid war veterans. Later, he expanded his operations to whole chains of factories and retail outlets where he had contacts. "Moscow soon became too small for Rabinovich," sneered Trud. He "extended his tentacles" to stores in Kharkov, Kiev and other cities. As Trud told it, he amassed profits exceeding...
...Catholic is abandoned by his wife. Unable to live a celibate life, he eventually remarries outside the church. He and his new wife live exemplary Christian lives and bring up their children in the Catholic faith. Nonetheless, they cannot receive the sacraments. According to church law, their marriage is invalid, and they are thus living in a state of mortal...
...faithfulness to principles give us the right to ignore the suffering of our brethren?" asks Lepp, who died last month at 56, shortly before his article appeared. "Is it really in the interest of the church to exclude from the Christian community so many men and women involved in invalid marriages...
Police Pigeon. No one is more anxious for the court to make up its mind than Danny Escobedo, a prime target of Chicago cops ever since the state dropped its case against him in 1964 for lack of any other evidence except his invalid confession. In prison, Danny wrote poetry, learned plumbing, discovered psychology. He walked out with a high school diploma, dreams of a good job, and hopes of suing the police for denial of his civil rights. Hardly anything has worked...