Word: validity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Trying to get at a definition of libel, taking a look at the New York Times v. Sullivan case, do you think there is a valid distinction between the rights of public officials and the rights of private citizens...
...shocked by President Reagan's suggestion that the marchers in South Africa were partly to blame for last week's bloodshed near Uitenhage [WORLD, April 8]. South Africa's blacks have a valid reason to protest. Everyone from the White House to Watts knows the apartheid system is wrong. John Ronnie Goodie Inglewood, Calif...
...produces increases of only 14 to 26 points. Many of the "tricks" that Katzman's Review claims to impart, says Anrig, are explained in a free E.T.S. booklet distributed in advance of the SAT. College administrators view the quarrel with general calm, noting that the SATs, however feared or valid, are just one element in admissions decisions. A few educators have suggested replacing the SATs with exams like the E.T.S. Achievement Tests, which measure knowledge rather than aptitude. Owen insists that the Review system could crack their codes too. "Any multiple- choice test built on a statistical model," he writes...
...student gives the wrong answer--or if there is no proper ground for protest-the computer so indicates and explains why the student erred. At the end of the tape, the program automatically flashes back to every point in the testimony at which the student failed to make a valid objection...
...their expensive wad on a marginally effective bunch of missiles at the expense of some future sound and necessary system. If there is a lesson to be learned from Vietnam, it is that when government take the right stand in the wrong place they can only ultimately discredit a valid position...