Word: valid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resolution proclaiming Marcos the winner of the election. The former President's departure has persuaded most legislators in his New Society Movement (K.B.L.) / to promise Aquino their backing. A new resolution recognizing her as the victor is expected to pass, but it is questionable whether it will be valid in constitutional terms. The snap election, which Marcos claimed to have won, 54% to 46%, was so tainted by fraud, most of it perpetrated by Marcos supporters, that it is now impossible to say with certainty which candidate prevailed...
...Soviet nuclear-bomb project, could never be released. As recently as two weeks ago, Gorbachev said flatly in an interview with the French Communist newspaper L'Humanite that Sakharov "is still considered to be in possession of state secrets and cannot leave the U.S.S.R." Whether the Soviet position is valid or not, the Kremlin seems determined to stick...
...individual statistics for the game remain valid, but the result has been changed to "loss by forfeit...
...appeal of an island is older than prose. It is a universal symbol, as valid for the isolated state as for the besieged heart. In this lean, piercing novel, Lisa Grunwald renews the metaphor by making Sanders Island, off Cape Cod, Mass., a garden and a desert. The narrator, Jennifer Burke, is the younger daughter of what seems an ideal couple: Milo and Lulu Burke are so devoted that they have always refused to fly in separate planes because "they wouldn't have wanted to go on without each other...
...more valid charge against Shultz is that he is no grand strategist. He acts like the foreman of a crew of diplomatic construction workers rather than a statesman pursuing an overall design. The Secretary is a devoted incrementalist. He cannot and does not claim any major breakthroughs, but says that during his tenure the U.S. has developed a consistency in its handling of relations with the Soviets, eased tensions with European allies and seen more democratic governments take root in Central America. Progress, he believes, can be made only by a kind of patient chipping away at encrusted differences rather...