Word: validity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Design decided it wanted to use the four-story brick apartment building for office space. Offices were incompatible with bedrooms and kitchens, and so eviction proceedings began. The first few rulings on the hotly contested case went against the University, which had tried to remove some tenants with valid leases. But Harvard kept up the fight, despite the protests of local leaders that the building represented 16 moderately priced units of increasingly scarce rental housing. The Summer Rd. site was soon the focus of city-University conflict, "the symbol of all that Harvard is trying to do to Cambridge...
...only meagre participation--this is a future still worth fighting for, and not, we believe, one that the Reagan presidency will provide. The current leaders in the struggle for the issues we believe in are temporarily or perhaps even permanently out of public favor. But the cause remains as valid as ever; and when the public learns the true nature of the new gospel in Washington, the voices of protest against it will be impossible to ignore. We raise ours...
...that curriculum itself is a boon made possible only through the presence of Brustein and his company. The general survey course offered this year will need revision to be successful; the more advanced acting, directing and criticism courses, however, all went far towards proving that theater is a valid, important academic pursuit...
...thing. Secrecy is back in favor-although it is now called "privacy." Every major post-Watergate rule is under attack, with some justice, either as an unwarranted intrusion by Government or as an ill-advised restraint on Government's pursuit of crime. Reformers concede that many criticisms are valid but argue for revision not repeal...
...Carter barred American citizens or companies from suing Iran in U.S. courts. Instead, all American claims were to be submitted to an "arbitration panel" consisting of three Americans, three Iranians and three independent members. The same panel was to process Iran's counterclaims. American claims judged to be valid would be paid out of a special "security account," funded with $1 billion of the estimated $12 billion in Iranian assets that had been frozen in U.S. banks for 14 months...