Word: doubted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advocated separating New York from the rest of the nation and allowing it to float out to sea. Instead of casting off the nation's greatest city, Mr. Simon now proposes to make a neat profit through its sale, with municipal residents and assets being thrown in, no doubt, to sweeten the sale...
Exactly what the Mafia rangers accomplished against Cuba is still unclear. Some intelligence officials doubt that a single guerrilla from Chicago ever set foot on the island. For his part, Cain later was to boast how he had led hit-and-run raids on Cuban power stations...
...week, New York's immediate financial fate was still in doubt. State and city officials were bitterly wrangling over the powers to be given to the proposed Municipal Assistance Corporation (dubbed "Big Mac"), which would attempt to convert the city's short-term debt into long-term bonds. The banking community insisted that Big Mac should exercise tight control over the city's short-term borrowing and receive all city sales tax revenue so as to make sure that the bonds it issued would be repaid. City officials balked at such a surrender of their fiscal authority...
...major businesses, professions and educational institutions in Philadelphia," and that "a fair number of people are at the top of those institutions." But he is quick to add. "Their political and social philosophies encompass a wide range of views with no identifiable single force. In short I doubt there is any controversial issue in present day society which the majority would agree upon," he says...
...opening day loss to Tufts, 7-5, cast more doubt on those winter hopes. Crucial losses to Penn. Northeastern and Boston College all but shattered them...