Word: validity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...confront a Kremlin counter-proposal which it finds as unpalatable as Moscow doubtless will find Reagan's. Then the hard part will begin. The $1.5 million question is whether both sides are genuinely interested in compromising in order to find common ground in which case Reagan's program is valid as an initial hard line bargaining stance--or whether superpower relations have become so poisoned that neither regards the other as seriously interested in arms control, let alone "significant reductions." The talks may then degenerate into a facade for propaganda exchange...
...differences were that simple, of course, there would be no valid argument. Still, the President had a point when he said that he had been willing to make substantial changes in the budget he had first proposed last February. He said that he had sought a cut of $101 billion in spending over three years. He was willing to limit those reductions, which Democrats claim would severely hurt the poor, to $60 billion. When Democrats suggested at the final bargaining session that the nondefense cuts be held to only $35 billion, Reagan said that he offered to split the difference...
Candidates running for state-wide offices, including senator, governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general must file petitions with the sufficient number of valid signatures to city and town officials by 5 p.m. today. Those running for local positions like state senator or representative had to meet a filling deadline for last week...
Yesterday, Mary Lee King said that while they still are not sure of 10,000 valid signatures, "things have improved a great deal...
...such grotesque levels of overkill, concepts of rough equivalence, equilibrium and stability lose all meaning. That proposition is highly debatable, yet Schell seems almost to take it for granted. While balance of power may be an old-fashioned idea, it can be argued to be all the more valid now that power is nuclear. Precisely because these arsenals must not be used, they must keep each other in check. A gross imbalance, while it might not make war any less suicidal, would create opportunities for the side with the advantage to engage in bullying, blackmail, bluffing and adventurism; thus...