Word: validity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...test. In college and graduate school admissions they say tests are only useful when used in conjunction with high school transcripts and other materials. Many find it convenient to place more emphasis on the test than they had intended, they say. "Tests are the most valid measure that anyone's devised," Churchill says...
...procedure has been streamlined, and the grounds-once limited to such strict factors as force, fraud, bigamy or impotence-have been quietly loosened. Many diocesan court judges now accept evidence of serious psychological "immaturity" as ex post facto proof of a couple's inability to enter into a valid marriage. In a little-noticed speech two weeks ago to the Vatican's marriage tribunal, John Paul said that psychological theories pressed upon judges are "not always correct," and insisted that judges must reach a "moral certainty," not just a "probability," that a marriage was invalid. Continued relaxation, warned...
However, the youths who oppose the draft as increasing the risk of inadvertent transition from "cold war" to full scale war have valid historical argument on their side...
...critical problems reduces their insistence on greater input to a joke, she says. Parker may have overreacted to their short-sightedness, though, by failing to solicit adequate faculty input for her Futures Report. One feels that she has constructed an elaborate excuse for here behavior, while making a fairly valid point about the ineffectiveness of faculty committees...
...poor performance in skiing is one of the biggest mysteries?and greatest disappointments?in American sport. Lack of support was a valid reason in the early '60s, when the American team would fly to Europe on one-way tickets, ski the winter circuit, then scrounge airfare home. Now the U.S. Ski Team operates on an annual budget of $2.2 million (compared with $275,000 for the U.S. Speed Skating Team); American skiers have access to equipment and technicians as good as any n the world. Says Team Director Bill