Word: validation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kelley's explanation sounds valid enough. He said that the valances at his Bethesda apartment had been installed by exhibit-section craftsmen without his knowledge. According to an FBI source, Kelley's wife, who died of cancer last November, had asked Kelley in 1973 to get the valances. Preoccupied, Kelley told his driver, Agent Thomas Moten, to take care of the matter. Having served on Hoover's personal staff, Moten did as he had done in the past: asked the exhibit section to help out. When Kelley asked Moten how much the valances cost, the chauffeur replied...
Although I believe there is validity in the periodic change of leadership in key administrative posts in any organization, the other side of that point is equally valid. New leadership should be unencumbered by the kinds of attachment which naturally accrue to long term previous leadership. The Director of Continuing Education should be allowed the privilege of creating his own team uninhibited by personal loyalties he may feel for me, an old friend, or by personal loyalties I have developed over the years...
Norman Totten, chairman of the History Department at Bentley College, said yesterday that "Fell's research is basically valid. He is a genius and has deciphered more ancient scripts and languages than any other person" in the field...
Aside from all the military, political and economic problems, Americans must ask an equally important question: Is independence really justified? Are the principles, the view of man, underlying last week's Declaration valid, and can a commonwealth based on them endure? Even now, many Americans are probably more committed to the principle of governmental legitimacy than most Europeans are. While the Americans' experience in a strange and unspoiled new world has liberated them from many outworn European ideas, it has at the same time made them cling for protection to basic European concepts of government and the rule...
...threaten us. These became applause lines just as carefully prepared and as essentially empty as Joe Penner's "Wanna buy a duck?" once was. Only occasionally did a reporter's sharp question throw a candidate off balance. (Reporters live in the conviction, which is not universally valid, that anyone's unguarded remarks more truly reflect his views than responses he has time to think...