Word: validity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Riding on the support of her own centrist Liberals, plus a loose coalition of Christian Democrats, British Conservatives and French Gaullists, France's Veil won her post on the second ballot, with 192 out of the 377 valid votes cast. Two leftist candidates, Italian Socialist Mario Zagari and Italian Communist Giorgio Amendola, went down to defeat with 138 and 47 votes respectively. Veil's victory thus demonstrated the effective dominance of the center-right parties in the Parliament, whose members were picked in direct elections throughout the nine European Community countries last month...
...Charlesbank Trust Co. But to von Schmidt, the Cambridge folk scene survived the flames and cultural demolition which devoured "the moment" at the end of the '60s. The Cambridge folk scene, he asserts, is a part of American musical history--not as a fad, but as a unique, valid and genuine musical "scene...
...Punk seems very self-indulgent to me, at least in this country. I think it draws a lot of upper-middle class audience....Folk music is musically valid because it relates the reality of experience as opposed to analytical considerations; it encompasses humanity in a way tht no popular music does...
...such as contending that Khomeini was an Iraqi spy. Secondly in mid-1977 it asked Iraq to expel Khomeini, and Baghdad complied. The U.S., among other countries, refused to take him in, lest such an act offend the Shah. Since he was permitted automatic entry if he had a valid passport, he decided to go to France, whose government took the precaution of asking the Shah whether he had any objections. The third mistake was the Shah's answer to France: he did not care what happened to Khomeini. For the first time, the world press had easy access...
Lloyd's underwriters say they intend to pay all valid claims. The 57 syndicates and the 17 insurance companies involved all share the loss. This spreading out is a main reason that Lloyd's group can take the risks it does. The underwriters have already paid about $30 million and set aside $220 million to cover future claims. The assumption in London is that many firms that use leased computers will not want to switch to better, new machines, because change requires reprogramming, new software, personnel training and other costly extras...