Word: validities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Increasingly, however, it is becoming clear that the September signing of the Declaration of Principles between Israel and the PLO was, in effect, little more than a handshake, and that my mother's concerns over disappointment may have been quite valid. Exaggerated by the media as a historic breakthrough between two age-old enemies, the accord achieved thus far is actually only breakthrough for the Israelis. The Palestinians have little to be happy about...
...controversial issue of date rape also needs to be addressed during Take Back the Night, but with a panel that includes a variety of different positions. The argument that women are responsible for their own actions is a valid one, but it should not imply that men don't have to be responsible for theirs. Instead of shifting blame squarely on one sex or the other, there must be, in certain cases, a middle ground which rests not on traditional stereotypes of men and women but on the notion of sexual equity...
Both sides make valid points. It's just that neither seems to grasp the brazen new mood out there represented by, among other things, all the grass- roots female backing for Ms. Bobbitt. The retail clerks who send her letters of support, the homemakers who cackle wildly every time they sharpen the butcher knife are neither "tired of hearing about victims" nor eager to honor them. They're tired of being victims. And they're eager to see women fight back by whatever means necessary. Probably it all started when Louise -- or was it Thelma? -- dispatched that scumball would...
...into play when you do a transaction. That's par for the course. But we did not see it coming, in spite of what everybody else thinks we saw. Nobody perceived, including our bankers -- but I'm not going to blame this on bankers -- that there was another valid bid out there that could match the power of the two companies coming together...
George J. Annas, director of the law, medicineand ethics program at the Boston University Schoolof Medicine and Public Health, said the hearings"went well. They produced a lot a valid,interesting and useful information...