Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suggested answer is to give NATO allies "nuclear sovereignty," i.e., to trust them with full control of atomic weapons. The case for nuclear sovereignty rests largely on the argument that if the U.S.S.R. came to doubt that NATO would respond to an attack upon a single member, the nuclear power of the individual member would provide an independent deterrent-filling in the gap of uncertainty. One obvious danger: the independent armed nuclear ally might fire off a rocket in the heat of passion and involve the world in atomic...
...Doubt was cast on another economic probability last week. Housing experts had expected tight money to cut building this year. But the Federal Housing Administration said that requests for loan guarantees had jumped 13% in December over November. That indicated that the construction industry may travel at a much faster pace than expected...
Ezra Cornell of suburban Bloomfield, N.J. does well at arithmetic and thinks he may become a scientist. Whatever he becomes, there is little doubt where he wants to go to college-Cornell University. For one thing, Ezra is the namesake and great-great-great grandson of the man who founded Cornell in 1865. For another, Ezra last week learned officially that he will be a life trustee of the university. He is eleven and a sixth-grader...
...high during the steel strike. Now, despite good earnings, hefty dividend hikes (see Earnings) and predictions of peak production, the market went its own morose way; the Dow-Jones industrial average dropped 23.23 points to end the week at 622.62. Auto stocks plummeted, for example, largely because of some doubt that the industry will run up the predicted 7,000,000-car year. Yet it seemed clearly headed for at least a 6,500,000-car year, the second biggest in history. Auto production in January hit a record for the month (see below...
...this or that-it might get us in trouble with Antitrust or the union, with the customers or the stockholders." Thus most speeches are prepared in committee, with lawyers, admen, public-relations men at hand to ax anything that could possibly offend anyone. Their rule of thumb: "If in doubt, be vague." The average speech is wrung through five to ten drafts, gets worse each time...