Word: doubted
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...instance, the subject of consciousness-raisin. No doubt it is possible to write an "objective" examination of such a topic--interview various people, authorities, social critics, etc., pro and con--but it probably wouldn't be nearly as interesting or nearly as revealing. What Ephron found her group degenerating into was "a running soap opera, with new episodes on the same theme every week"--Episode 13 of the Barbara is Uninhibited and Peter is a Drag Show, Episode 19 of the Will Joanna Ever Get Dave to Share the Household Duties Show; Claire and Herbie in the Claire has Sexual...
...participants have varying views about the importance of the document. The Soviets, who have been plumping for a European security agreement for more than 20 years, hailed the declaration as a triumph for their foreign policy. There is no doubt that Leonid Brezhnev was anxious to have the treaty signed and sealed before the convening of the 25th Soviet Party Congress in Moscow next February...
...minister received all letters relevant to his department. Should he decide that a letter required no reply, he would nonetheless communicate it to Washington "for his information." Other letters were sent to the President with the proposed reply attached. In most cases, Washington returned them without comment. "If any doubt arose, he brought it up at a conference," Jefferson commented. "By this means he was always in accurate possession of all facts and proceedings in every part of the Union ... and met himself the due responsibility for whatever was done...
There can be no doubt that the popular trust of presidential incumbents has decreased with the multiplicity of the demands made upon them. When George Washington was in office, he was very conscious of the danger of a collapse of confidence if he allowed too much to be expected of him. Unlike modern Presidents, he never tried to whip Congressmen into line. He accepted their separate function as one of the facts with which he had to cope...
Jugular Vein. Other experts, among them Citibank Economist Leif Olsen, doubt that the shortfall will be that severe. Yet the price of avoiding crisis, the optimists agree, will be a sharp scaling down of the nation's investment goals through the mid-1980s. In a recent study sponsored by Washington's Brookings Institution, Harvard's James Duesenberry and two other economists derided "Cassandras" who are forecasting a shortage and concluded that "we can afford the future, but just barely." The Duesenberry study contends that Government can be counted upon to come to the rescue: by running...