Word: doubtful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...celebrated after the final buzzer wentoff, there's no doubt about that. He raised hisarms in the air in triumph, did a little dance onthe bench and went out to slap all his players onthe back...
...these concerned friends of Israel unaware of the use of these West Bank universities, not as places of learning, but as centers of mobilization for political resistance and violence. It will no doubt come as news to most people that these universities had never existed before the Israelis came in 1967; the preceding Arab (Jordanian) occupation regime (but no one treated it as an occupation) had well understood the uses of such places and simply barred them...
Even some of the most hardheaded Western diplomats stationed in Moscow as well as some of the most hard-line experts who have recently visited there are revising their views. They now say they doubt that Gorbachev's Kremlin or any imaginable successor's will undertake foreign adventures while the home front is in a state of such crisis, as it will be for a long, long time to come. A new consensus is emerging, that the Soviet threat is not what it used...
Since his selection as party chief in 1985, Gorbachev has exceeded both the hopes of those who longed for reinvigoration and the fears of those, no doubt including comrades who voted for him, who worried that he would jeopardize the power and privileges of the elite. He has been a political dynamo, showering sparks inside and outside the country. His commitment to the still elusive goal of perestroika, his effort to make the economy produce what the people want to consume, and glasnost, an end to systematic official lying, have transformed the Soviet Union and made possible a transformation...