Word: invalidates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...right where the last one left off, with the plucky orphan gamboling around a Christmas tree with her adoptive plutocrat. In steams a social-welfare commissioner with a bad attitude, played by Alene Robertson as a cross between Bella Abzug and Shelley Winters at their coarsest. The adoption is invalid, she tells Daddy Warbucks, because he doesn't have a wife. The rest of the show is devoted to marrying him off and extracting him from the tentacles of the adhesive and ambitious commissioner. Along the way father faces financial ruin, daughter runs away and turns hobo, a potential wife...
...occasional thud of exploding shells. "I have seven people at home, and my friend was supposed to meet me here to help me carry water, but she hasn't come," says Tutundzic. "No one else can help me. My two sons are wounded, and my husband is an invalid. I no longer know what...
...Less than a week after surviving an impeachment attempt. Maya G. Prabhu '94 resigns from her post as vice chair of the Undergraduate Council and assumes responsibility for the invalid results of a social committee election she conducted. Privately, she admitted to rigging the election, council members said...
...crisis began to cool temporarily when the missing Yeltsin decree was finally distributed, four days late. Surprisingly, the text, dated March 20, did not contain the words declaring "special rule" that the court found impermissible, nor did it declare that parliamentary action against Yeltsin's decrees would be automatically invalid, as he had threatened...
...Supreme Soviet, or parliament, and its parent, the Congress of People's Deputies. Yeltsin said he would not dissolve them -- yet. He would just ignore them. They could continue to meet and conduct legitimate legislative business, but if they tried to countermand his decrees, he would deem their acts invalid...