Word: validation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rugged courtroom common sense to cope with the challenge of a historic constitutional clash between branches of Government. Even a President must respond to subpoenas for evidence in criminal cases, Sirica ruled. Judges, not the President, must ultimately decide whether claims of Executive privilege to withhold such evidence are valid. Presidents, in short, are not above the law. The Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld him; and in the end, Nixon gave up, partly because he feared that the Supreme Court would also see it Sirica...
...finally stand against a declaration of the President of the United States on any but the strongest possible evidence." Nonetheless, he would have to examine the tapes himself in order to determine whether the President's case for not yielding them was valid. "In all candor," Sirica said, "the court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege in criminal matters simply because it is the President of the United States who holds the evidence." Asked Sirica rhetorically: "What distinctive quality of the presidency permits its incumbent...
...occasion of sin. (Greeley promptly started a sequel.) The New Agenda (Doubleday) may be Greeley's best theological work to date. It is a thoughtful pastoral prescription for a changing church, which, however, insists that basic Christian concepts-the Resurrection, a Saviour, God's fidelity-are still valid answers to modern man's anxieties. Says Eugene Kennedy: "Greeley is a progressive centrist. He defends the church while trying to move it forward...
...slipping SAT scores has been that a larger and less selective group of students has been taking the tests. But in the past five years, as the number of students going to college has leveled off, the number taking the test has also stabilized, making this explanation no longer valid. Could it be, as many parents fear, that American schools just are not doing as good a job of developing verbal and mathematical skills as they used to do? Or are American kids simply getting dumber...
Lawyers involved say it is too early to know if the 2.2 acres purchased by the Kennedy Corporation would remain valid if the environmental statement prevented construction of the complex on the rest of the site. And even if the Kennedy Corporation's claim to the 2.2 acres were upheld by a court, the Corporation might not be required to sell the land to Harvard...