Word: validness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...national crusade to lower cholesterol has come under fire. Though some of the criticisms are valid, the evidence still supports the link between a sensible diet and a healthier heart...
...this argument, such characteristics as personal disposition--whether one is amiable, witty, etc--the quality by which clubs presumably choose their members are not valid criteria for selection...
...analysis valid? "I certainly don't feel very comfortable with the way he's used the data," says Hart Research president Geoffrey Garin. While Kleck based his findings on the Hart survey, his analysis of the circumstances under which guns were used came from other studies. Protests Garin: "We don't know anything about the nature of the instances people were reporting." Says William Eastman, president of the California Chiefs of Police Association, about the Kleck conclusions: "It annoys the hell out of me. There's no basis for that data...
...Services permits the states to place new restrictions on abortion. "Before Webster," says Susan Carroll, a political scientist with Rutgers University's Center for the American Woman in Politics, "there was a very real assumption, especially among college students, that the battle was over." That assumption is no longer valid...
...dismisses "this claim of 'culture' as being nothing more than a desire to perpetuate or entrench existing ((Time)) management disguised in a pompous, highfalutin' claim." Wrote he: "I understand the argument . . . But I am not persuaded that there may not be instances in which the law might recognize as valid a perceived threat to a 'corporate culture' that is shown to be palpable (for lack of a better word), distinctive and advantageous...