Word: valid
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...compensate the accident victim. Legally, this is still so. But public expectations have shifted toward protecting the injured." Though the alliance carefully calls its plan" Guaranteed Benefits," the guarantee does not cover property damage; it applies only to injured persons whom the insurers deem to have a valid liability claim because they were not at fault in the accident...
...Organs. Even spokesmen for institutions troubled by the student assault conceded that some goals of the protesters were valid. Speaking at the University of Pennsylvania, CBS Chairman William S. Paley, a Columbia University trustee, admitted that he "questions the soundness today of the old theory of trustees as a small, self-perpetuating group of interested laymen, many chosen for life, into whose custody the full character and conduct of the university are reposed." At his university's commencement, Columbia Historian Richard Hofstadter heartily agreed that "powers need to be reallocated, new organs of decisions and communication need...
Despite the obvious risk of a money-losing venture, Foreign Minister Michel Debré insisted last week that France will not back out of the project. Whether that assurance remains valid, of course, depends on the outcome of France's elections. A non-Gaullist French government might yield to the rising pressure to divert government spending to social services. Many Britons, chafing at the Concorde's cost, would like to see it scrapped...
...academic specialization in the field. Partly out of practical necessity, universities generally agree that a teacher's color is irrelevant in matters of scholarship. "You don't need a Greek to teach Greek or a Communist to teach Marx," contends Rutgers Provost Richard Schlatter. Anyone with a valid claim to expertise in black studies can just about choose his campus. Brooklyn College has created a chair in Afro-American studies, offering up to $31,000 a year, but has yet to find an occupant...
Harvard's size and complex nature makes it impractical to have a participatory democracy in University affairs for students and, to some degree, for Faculty. That is not to say that student pressure should not be exerted. Nor does it mean that protest over substantive differences is not a valid part in the University's decision-making process...