Word: validity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demand, the rate of a loan or the price of a new product. Said Greenspan: "The psychological impact of inflation is greater than at any tune in the postwar era." The task of the new Administration will be to convince the American public that these expectations are no longer valid and that price increases will soon start to slow down...
Uniformed Iranian guards came over to join the argument for our return. "They're murderers," they told the Pakistani officers. "They have killed scores of innocent people." The Pakistani checkpoint commander, under a hail of obscenities from the Iranians, calmly replied: "They have valid passports and visas. I obey and enforce the law. I am not here to bandy obscenities with you." Under the protection of the senior Pakistani officer in the region, Major Javid Afrouz, a humane and professional military man, we were protected until we could hire a truck for the ride to the city of Quetta...
Homosexuality is a valid form of love. What struck me most in learning about homosexual relationship is the amazing similarity to straight ones in the feelings and emotions they involve. Without the names and pronouns, a description of a gay affair is literally indistinguishable from that of a straight one. Advice I might give to a gay man about a romance is equally applicable to a straight woman. Seeing how natural and beautiful a gay relationship can be has convinced me that it is not in any way a perversion, corruption or misuse of sexuality. It is simply an alternative...
...York City-based Association for Voluntary Sterilization charges that the primate experiments are not statistically valid. A.V.S. Physiologist Ira Richards also says there is no evidence of excessive heart disease in sterilized...
...interest in fiction overflows into the valid but unoriginal point that the film has taken the novel's place at the center of our culture. This returns her to her theme: "the moving picture...cannot be an idea spreader...A film cannot have a spokesman or chorus character to point the moral." Regardless of the film's "victory" over the novel, this contention would be difficult to maintain; film history, from Triumph of the Will to Norma Rac, proves her wrong...