Word: validity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week. "The public doesn't seem to know we're here," lamented Salant, who had served as council president for the past ten months. "And worse yet, the press just didn't think we're very useful." Undaunted, he called the news council "a valid idea whose time has not yet come, but will in the near future." Perhaps...
Coop by laws stipulate that at least five percent of the eligible voters at the three schools must cast ballots in order to make the election valid...
...find some good will in the symbols rather than governmental sponsorship of a religion? The majority opinion contends that "The display engenders a friendly community spirit of good will in keeping with the season." But good will at what price? As the dissent points out, Pawtucket may have a valid "secular reason" (good will and increased retail sales) for setting up the display, but are life-sized figures of Jesus. Mary, Joseph, angels, shepherds, kings and animals the only way to encourage such secular motives? Equally effective would have been the merry Santa scene without the religious accoutrements. The city...
...courts. And just last week the Reagan Justice Department, which itself signed the 1981 court decree calling for preferential hiring, entered the suit on the side of the male plaintiffs. Although the department states it does not yet know if the charges to reverse discrimination are valid, it stands solidly behind their attack on quotas. William Bradford Reynolds, assistant attorney general for civil rights, blithely explains: "We always side with those people who claim they have suffered discrimination on account of race...
...Washington, State Department Spokesman John Hughes agreed with Kissinger about "the centrality of the transatlantic defense relationship to Western security and world peace." But he went on to say that the alliance was healthy, its structure sound and its strategy "valid and viable." Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Richard Burt argued that NATO had met one of its most severe tests by beginning to deploy new missiles in Europe. Said he: "The performance over the past 18 months has demonstrated to anyone paying attention that the alliance is sound...