Word: doubtful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard women's squash team may not officially be national champions, but after the Crimson's victory this past weekend at the Howe Cup Tournament held at Yale University's Payne Whitney Gym, there can be little doubt that Harvard is the best team in the country...
...they were a real, nearly unbeatable team who were the first baseball professionals to be paid openly, by contract, and who campaigned to both the East and West coasts that year.) The reader does not really ask these questions, because the narrative moves with such cheerful confidence that doubt does not arise. But a couple of advantages work powerfully in favor of the author's device. Fowler, having a thin time of it in the 20th century, is plunked into a situation in which his only problems are day-to-day adventures. His lifting of mood coincides with that...
...gains, but 50% of adults surveyed in the TIME/CNN poll oppose the idea, vs. 36% who favor it. The President's proposed Family Savings Accounts would be more popular: 72% of those surveyed are in favor of giving savers the incentive of tax-free interest on deposits. But consumers doubt that they will get any tax breaks this year. Most of those polled expect levies to go up (51%) or stay the same...
There is no doubt that the Avianca pilot, a 17-year veteran, knew he had a fuel problem, although it is uncertain if he understood its extent. Investigators are focusing on whether the crew adequately conveyed its concerns to regional air controllers and whether these controllers passed the information on to the local controllers. Tapes reveal that the Avianca crew informed the regional center that its fuel was insufficient to reach Boston, but this information apparently was not relayed in the "hand-off" between controllers. Still, the pilot did not object when the plane was then placed on a routine...
...interview Tuesday, Bok expressed doubt that the Board would take "that issue up in a serious sense...