Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Argue Later. The supertanker Manhattan last fall put an end to any doubt about whether oil was coming to an undeveloped part of Maine's coastline (there is already an oil facility in Portland). By successfully battling its way through ice floes, the Manhattan opened the Northwest Passage as a feasible route from Alaska's North Slope oilfields to the domestic market. Maine's deepwater harbors, several studies proved, were the only ones along the Eastern Seaboard that could handle the 300,000-ton supertankers. "Instead of playing penny-ante stuff with the shoe industry, Maine...
ECONOMISTS may debate whether or not the U.S. economy is in a recession, but many businessmen know that their own companies or industries are caught in a serious slump-and they are taking steps to cope with it. Seldom has the transition from buoyant optimism to spreading doubt come so abruptly for such a large cross section of manufacturers. As a result, businessmen are paying new attention to costs and gaining added respect for the old-fashioned virtue of thrift. In pursuit of more efficiency, executives are questioning old operating methods, eliminating frills, curtailing the output of unprofitable or barely...
Although the margin of victory is hard to predict, there is little doubt as to whether Harvard will...
...West) reciting texts of third world liberation, is superb. And, for about half the film, the Stones are fascinating to watch. When Nicky Hopkins plays the organ (not the piano, as on the recorded version) while Jagger chants, "I was here when Jesus Christ had his moments of doubt and pain," you begin to believe that the devil is holier or at least more human, than...
...find one disturbing flaw in the structure of the proposed new Undergraduate Council. The manner in which students are elected to it may insure that "radical" views (by which that term is understood at Harvard) will go unrepresented. Election by Houses constitutes a classical case of gerrymandering. I doubt that any House contains a sufficient concentration of radicals to elect a spokesman of their point of view, thus excluding such opinion from legitimate expression. By locking these people out of the "system," we reinforce their tendency to engage in extra-legal forms of protest such as mass meetings. building take...