Word: validity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writes of the issues of cultural beliefs affecting scientific research and of the simplification of intelligence into a one-dimensional characteristic; he uses intelligence testing, he says, to prove this larger point. However, his scientific jargon and awkward writing style in this part hinder clear presentation of these valid points. The beautiful narrative style evident in the bulk of the book is not evident in his hypothesizing...
Above all, he is, in his scheming way, the defender of a dream, an old-fashioned American dream of plucking and lucking to the top. That the movie implies this fantasy nowadays seems to survive only down here among the social mushrooms may even be a valid bit of cultural commentary...
...very least, the item raised questions about the Post's journalistic proprieties. Powell had a valid question: If the Post really believed that the Carters had been bugging visitors to Blair House, including heads of state and the next U.S. President, why did the story not rate full investigative reporting and Page One headlines? "It would rival Watergate: the President ... violating the laws and the Constitution," claimed Powell. And if Post editors did not believe the bugging had taken place, Adamson noted, printing the rumor could constitute the "reckless disregard" for truth that a public figure must prove...
...constitutional committee's action is valid, then I believe that it constitutes a direct mandate to President Bok, Dean Epps, and others, to investigate immediately the true "liberalness" of the undergraduate community, and to move from the findings of such an investigation in a direction of addressing and abolishing through education, in a specific sense, any biases or iniquties, whose ramifications would necessarily extend far beyond the bounds of the student council. Robert Coburn...
This year Ehrlich is at it again. In Extinction: The Causes and Consequences of the Disappearance of Species, he argues that the destruction of species will spell disaster for mankind. Yet, though he again brings forth valid and enlightening points, Armageddon still doesn't seem near. Man may cause the death of other species, but the human race's sense of self-preservation will probably stop it from committing mass suicide...