Word: validity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Critics complain that the third section makes the Journal cumbersome, while some advertisers are said to be concerned that the new format allows readers to discard sections they prefer not to read. But these arguments hardly seem valid. The format makes the previously scattershot Journal more reader friendly and attractive -- and that can't be bad for business...
...complaint used in defense of Israel. This can only be because we Jews are beginning to understand that Israel's human rights violations are not merely "as bad" as those of many other countries. They are worse. Analogies to South Africa--though often simplistic and malicious--are becoming increasingly valid...
Furthermore, opponents of the garage say the city may have overestimated the number of parking spaces allowed under EPA limits, and they say a legal interpretation used to add 3500 new spaces may not be valid...
That's fair enough. Emotions are a valid part of a presidential campaign. (So, for that matter, are personalities.) But the emotions Bush is stirring up in the name of American patriotism are ugly and -- dare I say it -- un- American. What unites the pledge nonsense, the furlough business, the attacks on the American Civil Liberties Union, the scare stories about a race of mythic bogeymen called liberals is an effort to induce a fever of "us" vs. "them" majoritarianism...
...wartime experience on the Indiana front a legitimate embarrassment to him. First is how he got in. It's not absolutely clear that connections were necessary to join the Indiana Guard at that time, but it's clear Quayle and his family didn't leave things to chance. A valid issue on its own, this also compounds the G.O.P. ticket's "silver spoon" problem. Second, it's hard for a politician to strike a martial pose and accuse his opponents of insufficient devotion to American military strength when he passed up his one chance to make a personal contribution...