Word: voided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite widespread media conclusions that President Bush's first 100 days in office were void of accomplishments, the new administration can point to several policy victories, White House Chief of Staff John Sununu said Friday night at the John F. Kennedy School of Government...
...syllable of French. So it was no slip of the tongue when the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization chose to use a French word during a live interview on France's TF1 television channel. At one point, Arafat declared as caduque -- a legal term meaning null and void -- the controversial 1964 P.L.O. charter, which calls for the destruction of Israel...
...detach itself from the wing of the Angelic Limner in 1846, when John Ruskin lets fly in Modern Painters: "A taint and stain, and jarring discord . . . marked sensuality and impurity." In 1895 Romain Rolland downed him: "He was able to deceive two entire centuries . . . Guido's laborious conscientiousness is void of thought and true feeling." Two years later, Bernard Berenson wrung his neck: "We turn away from Guido Reni with disgust unspeakable." And it was downhill from there; in 1910 one of his versions of Bacchus and Ariadne sold at Christie's for just under (pounds)10, a fraction...
Agreeing with the charge that the school's policy analysis approach to politics was void of the humanism necessary for a public servant, he also called for a greater emphasis on ethics, values and governmental philosophy in the school's curriculum. "The principle challenge ahead will be to add those forms of education that will help government officials move beyond being mere bureaucrats and technicians to become the kinds of human beings to whom we would willingly entrust decisions that affect our lives," he wrote...
Conveniently, under the provisions of Chapter 11 bankruptcy laws, Lorenzo was allowed to void all prior union contracts to help bring Continental back to its feet. Today, Continental Airlines flies the skies again--staffed by nonunion workers...