Word: validity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mechanical problems are, of course, a valid reason for delaying an airliner. But with rare candor, Eastern Air Lines admitted last week that in July it had averaged 39 cancellations of 1,500 daily flights because of lagging maintenance. "Eastern is having extraordinary problems," conceded Spokesman Jerry Cosley. "Our employees are catching hell at the airports." This month Eastern scrubbed its daily flight from Miami to London on four successive days because its only available DC-10 required engine repairs. On one day Eastern kept 285 passengers waiting five hours before announcing the cancellation. On the fifth day, it kept...
...offer him any other work. By the time the Government acted, however, the AIDS victim had been dead five months. Indeed, no AIDS victim has yet lived long enough to win a decision from the U.S. court system (though judgments in cases where plaintiffs have died are legally valid...
...intrusive? The test, in order to be valid, must be taken in the presence of a witness. How much more intrusive can it be, how much more unreasonable can a search be, how much more a violation of one's fundamental personal rights can it be than to be forced to urinate in the presence of some silent, bureaucratic stranger...
...some extent, their charges are valid. But then again, in a society in which security forces snatched people off the street in broad daylight simply because they shared a last name with someone the government suspected of having guerrilla connections, in which the economy is 60 percent government controlled and most depend on Government House to put their daily bread on the table, and in which years of military dictatorship have left the lesson that if you are quiet and obedient you will survive, everyone to a certain extent condoned the military. Everyone was both a victim and an accomplice...
...administrators are somewhat hopeful that the new, clarified procedures, as well as the greater acceptance of sexual harassment as a valid complaint, have helped make students more willing to report sexual harassment incidents to the University. A report released in September revealed a rise in the number of cases reported to University officials, but the officials say it is impossible to determine whether this trend reflects increased awareness or an actual increase in sexual harassment incidents themselves...