Word: validity
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...bringing his message to the people of the world. Law suggested that the Pope's recent trips to Haiti and the Philippines brought to light basic governmental human rights abuses which hastened the popular overthrow of repressive regimes. Whether or not this theory of cause and effect is valid, one thing remains certain. The Pope's visit to Boston in October 1979 had an initial reverse effect. While he was here and directly following his visit, there were reports of a significant increase in verbal and physical assaults on members of the gay and lesbian community which many attribute directly...
This sequence culminated with Gorbachev's surprise proposal for a quickie test-ban summit. The Administration is puzzled as to why Gorbachev has invested so much of his personal prestige in a test-ban proposal that he must know is a non-starter. Though there are valid arguments for and against a ban (see box), the Reagan Administration has made it unmistakably clear that, as one White House aide put it, "that bird ain't going to fly." About the best advisers can figure is that the Kremlin has reverted to its old game of trying to drive a wedge...
While some of these concerns may be valid, Interior Department officials argue that as older oil fields elsewhere in the U.S. approach the end of their productive years, new supplies must be developed. The Government estimates that the U.S. will have to find 32 billion bbl. of new oil reserves by 1995 to maintain domestic production at the current level of 9 million bbl. a day, and to keep from becoming more dependent upon imports, which now account for 27% of U.S. consumption. Half of those new supplies are expected to come from offshore wells. Says Hodel: "The federal offshore...
This is not an issue of "sensitivity," it is an issue of recognizing a valid academic discipline. Since Wise not only does not, but I believe can not show that women's studies is not academically valid, his argument that this is just a political move is unwarranted. If the discipline were invalid there is no reason to be ashamed of the support it has received from political trends. That would be like calling the admission of women into institutions of higher education merely a political move that was academically invalid, just because the admissions were achieved with the help...
...when the TWSA decides not to publish a booklet or hold a rally or write a letter because they do not represent the "minority students who are here." The TWSA booklet interpreted the history of Third World students here at Harvard, and did so with, in my opinion, some valid political goals in mind. The booklet represents the views of some minority students here...