Word: valid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spanish, one-fifth of Spanish A students passed the exam in their first try at the tests. Only 22 of 68 enrolled in Ca succeeded, after the equivalent of three semesters of study at the college. Geary emphasized that the placement tests are not valid standards of comparison for courses because of varying contents and quality of students in otherwise similar courses...
...Stuart Hughes, professor of History, asserted yesterday, "I am very definitely opposed to any nuclear testing. While there may be valid military arguments for its resumption, for me, the overriding consideration is to halt the pollution of the atmosphere and the intensification of the cold war before it is too late...
Unfortunately, Congress may pass no law nullifying in advance those of Kennedy's appointments which are ill-considered. But if the confirmation process itself is allowed to become mere formality, then no objections, valid or invalid, from left or right, important or trivial, can be raised against anyone, at any point...
...disease to England did Pakistani Health Minister, General Wajid Ali Burki, crack down on Karachi's sloppy vaccination and isolation practices. While Britons rushed for emergency vaccinations, health inspectors carted off newly-arrived Pakistanis' clothing for disinfection. Authorities in London sputtered that all the infected Pakistanis had "valid" vaccination certificates when they entered. But a Pakistani admitted that in his country these can easily be bought. The British are now requiring visitors to show vaccination scars or go to an isolation hospital. But the British government still shies away from reinstating compulsory vaccination...
...persuade you of them. You can condemn the West Coast as a bucket of obscene crabs--the way The Savage Eye does--or you can see its people as men trying to make the best of a new order of things. Either way of looking at them is valid, and that is why The Savage Eye seems so unfair...