Word: validation
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...start from the thesis that I admit might not be valid, but I would hope alcohol is not the basis of social life and house life," Jewett said after the meeting...
...Mayor Roger Hedgecock resigned. Then last Thursday, amid allegations of jury tampering, Hedgecock's lawyers filed a motion for a new trial. The following day, just before he was due to leave office, Hedgecock announced that he would stay on, pending the outcome. Said he: "If there is no valid verdict, there is no basis for resignation...
Senior faculty members acknowledged that the complaints were largely valid and have made a concerted effort to reform what some say represents a long--though unconscious--pattern of sexism within the department and Harvard in general...
...such administrative decisions represent nothing more than the least the University should do. Such directives may help protect students from sexual harassment in the future, but they wholly disregard valid student fears that the past has caught up with the present...
...authors to gain an audience. She also wanted an unprejudiced response to her fiction, "to get free of that cage of associations and labels that every established writer has to learn to live inside." This may seem a rather downbeat response to a worldwide reputation, but the point is valid. Lessing's reviewers and readers, familiar with such works as The Golden Notebook and The Four-Gated City, probably do expect every book bearing her name to concern itself with feminism and politics. That is why this new novel is likely to cause considerable consternation and dismay...