Word: validity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also tells more than he knows. On the surface, his narrative is an old-fashioned adventure story, episodic, rambling, full of exotic surprises. Beneath all that activity, though, lie several conclusions that Charlie himself does not draw. Shaved of its excesses, Allie's critique of contemporary life is valid. There is ever less elbowroom for the individual; submissive cooperation with increasingly remote and mysterious forces has become the order of the day. And Allie's fate suggests that the trend is irreversible. He undoes himself because he carries with him the civilization he thought he had abandoned...
Steiner said the University would argue that" a valid election was held [and] that Harvard's policy, which was adhered to was one of non-interference...
...reminds critics that he spoke out against discrimination long before he ran for office. His defenders contend that minority activists would be suspicious of Reagan anyway because of his conservative philosophy and because they can use hostility toward him as a rallying point for their followers. That observation is valid. But part of Reagan's self-imposed mandate is to show that his conservatism has a broad reach...
...Valid objections to a peacetime--or a wartime--draft exist, but they are outweighed by the possible benefit. Critics of a draft argue that the all-volunteer force is meeting enlistment goals and improving in quality; hence, they contend, a draft is unnecessary. Not only does the argument ignore basic questions of fairness as outlined earlier, it also makes the assumption that all we should worry about is having enough bodies in uniform. We too want full enlistments; as we have said above, we also think a whole host of military, social and political ends are served by changing...
...growing number of Gorsuch's critics in Congress, including some Republicans. The leaks have made Gorsuch feel even more embattled. She has taken the offensive against the EPA's much praised first decade, claiming a tradition of "mismanagement and no management." Some points are valid. When she took office there was a backlog of more than 1,000 modifications of various state plans to reduce pollution, all requiring federal approval; that accumulation has been cut by half...