Word: invalidity
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...issue became the ACSR's credibility. Stevens says that the ACSR's decisions are inconsistent--and perhaps invalid--because almost half the committee turns over every year. But the Corporation craves consistency--so Stevens spent the summer planning how the ACSR can investigate each company more thoroughly so its decisions become more consistent...
...setting up temporary eye camps in remote villages. There surgeons perform more than 100 operations per day on patients from the surrounding area. When a blind man's relatives lead him in, says Wilson, "they are usually bossing him around, bored with having to care for this useless invalid. After the operation, when the family leaves the camp, he is a man transformed, his status restored...
...official communique issued after a week of deliberations, the 201-member committee declared that the labels of "renegade, traitor and scab," attached to Liu by a 1968 Central Committee resolution, were now invalid. Liu, who reportedly died in disgrace in 1969, would henceforth be regarded as "a great Marxist, proletarian revolutionary and one of the principal leaders of the party and state...
...into a valid marriage. In a little-noticed speech two weeks ago to the Vatican's marriage tribunal, John Paul said that psychological theories pressed upon judges are "not always correct," and insisted that judges must reach a "moral certainty," not just a "probability," that a marriage was invalid. Continued relaxation, warned the Pope, would "allow divorce, under another name, to be tolerated"-a direct quote from a 1973 Vatican warning to the U.S. bishops...
...Harvard's actions, the leaders of this institution will conclude they are doing the right thing. If professors or administrators disagree with students, they should try to convince them they are wrong. And even if most graduates become doctors, lawyers and businessmen, their concern and their ideas are not invalid. The apostasy of the individual does not discredit the cause...