Word: validator
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...gathered together without a formal women’s center to house them. If RUS cared as much about consolidating these resources as it does about securing a new women’s center, then they would push for this step immediately instead of using it as their one valid bargaining chip...
...Continental Airlines, based in Houston, offered Katrina evacuees one-way tickets anywhere in the country but 22-year-old Robin Miller and her family couldn't take the offer because they didn't all have valid IDs. Instead, the Miller family planned to take a Greyhound bus to Atlanta. As the storm headed more westerly, some decided to chance yet another storm. Ronald Mills, a 49-year-old New Orleans truck driver who rescued about 200 people by flat boat, said he plans to stick out Rita. He was staying at a hotel in Brenham, Texas, and had applied...
...takes it none too seriously. Analysts, brokers, commodities traders are all wickedly caricatured, and in one of the book's most fascinating passages, Halloway's invisibility affords sweet revenge on the market's greed and phoniness. In need of untraceable income, he invents a paper identity complete with a valid Social Security number, opens a brokerage account on imaginary credit, then uses eavesdropped insider information to make himself a millionaire...
...writer-performer understands that a movie company working in the Third World is a colonial microcosm. Its technology is imperious in its imperatives; its largesse inevitably provokes all sorts of mutually exploitative muddles with the locals. This is a valid, if modest, insight, and Gray projects himself agreeably as a rational naif. But The Killing Fields took up themes far transcending show-biz silliness. It was about the 1975 fall of America's Cambodian client state to the genocidal revolutionaries of the Khmer Rouge. Gray's attempt to deal wryly with themes on this scale finally fails...
...ICEM reported numerous other irregularities, such as repeat voting, voting without valid ID, turning away voters saying ballot boxes were full, and ignoring the right of voters to cast their ballots in secrecy...