Word: validating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long run, the British trade position depended on whether Britons can overcome industrial production difficulties at home. Last week John Osborne, TIME'S London bureau chief, set himself, his staff and his correspondents in the provinces to the task of finding Britain's essential strengths and its valid hopes of survival and recovery. Osborne reported...
...Spot. If anyone had ignored those realities, it was the Supreme Court. The majority had failed to see the consequences of its decision. Justice Murphy's loose-jointed constructions and sloppy phrasing invited the filing of thousands of portal-pay suits by unions. If these were valid, even in part, "the realities of the industrial world" meant that many businesses would be lamed, some crippled. Through tax rebates and cost-plus contracts, the Government would be nicked for much of the bill...
...Last Rupee. India is the best example of the postwar turnabout. Here, over a century, Britain had poured in some ?550,000,000 of investments. Now most of the investments are gone, and brown-skinned men hold valid claims to millions Britain cannot...
...promises which have been made, or who examines the history of the Holy Land, can call the Jewish claim legally tenuous or based on weak evidence. What Wald might have said, with less fear of contradiction, is that the Arabs also have a somewhat legitimate claim. The existence of valid conflicting claims is the main cause of the present dispute, nor are the people who espouse either side completely without intelligence...
Granting, as one must, that there are two valid sides to this very complex argument, it serves no useful purpose to far the Crimson with a taint it does not deserve, nor to assume the utter indefensibility of a position merely because one does not happen to endorse it. Barry Golomb...