Word: validation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even as it moved against its noisiest critics, the Suharto government seemed to be admitting that many of the students' complaints had been valid. The Cabinet announced a new code of conduct aimed at reducing corruption. For example, officials will no longer be permitted to buy "personal" gifts for friends and business associates with government funds...
...What happens in the classroom when students are passed along until "a third of the high school seniors have reading and math skills below eighth-grade level"? The teachers can no longer wjite valid tests or conduct meaningful discussions; the faculty disagree among themselves about the purpose of education; confused students note with increasing frequency that learning is not the name of the game: and the mentally gifted become turned...
...Quiz. In a statement, the White House pleaded with "the American people" to realize that the erasure did not prove that the lost conversation had contained any incriminating evidence. But that legally valid distinction defied logic and, perhaps more important to Nixon's survival as President, plain ordinary common sense. Only the White Queen in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, as conservative Columnist George F. Will observed, was capable of believing "six impossible things before breakfast...
...believes that the "market for ideas," to which journalism belongs, is economically motivated, like the market for goods, and therefore as fit for public regulation as railroads or drug companies. "I do not believe that this distinction between the market for goods and the market for ideas is valid," he declared...
Died. Gabriel Voisin, 93, pioneer French aeronautical engineer; near Tournus, France. Voisin claimed that his biplane, which took off under its own power and flew a one-kilometer circuit in 1908, made the world's first valid aircraft flight. (The Wright Brothers in 1903 had used a catapult-assisted takeoff.) Voisin built 10,400 aircraft for the Allies during World...