Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...startling for any American President, let alone a Republican of Nixon's background and character, to raise such a doubt about traditionally defined economic growth. The idea of almost infinite expansion has always been a part of the national faith. Now, even in the White House, there is a disposition to heed the Thoreauvian advice: "Simplify...
...popular. But it adds that Thieu himself is considered "increasingly autocratic, secretive and isolated." Despite foreign suggestions that he seek wider political backing, many of Thieu's critics believe he will not move in that direction as long as he can count on U.S. support. Besides, there is doubt that many opposition politicians would be willing to join Thieu's regime. Nonetheless, Thieu has made major efforts in his two years in office to tighten up his administration. He has either fired or reassigned every one of his nation's 44 provincial chiefs in an effort...
Weary of the War. "The front is now within earshot," a Western resident of Cairo told TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott last week, "but it is still divorced from public opinion." Doubt and disenchantment could soon change that. Cairo's upper classes are plainly weary of the war; each year 15,000 well-educated Egyptians emigrate, many to Canada, despite blocked funds and other difficulties. The lower classes, who account for much of the city's population of 5,000,000, still believe whatever the government radio tells them; the bureaucrats who owe their jobs to the regime...
...steel and chemical companies, but some businesses that had seemed almost impervious to economic slowdown also reported earnings declines. IBM, for example, showed the first quarterly earnings dip in ten years, causing a pronounced decline in the stock and general disenchantment with other "glamour" shares. Early reports leave little doubt that overall corporate pretax profits dipped from the third quarter to the last quarter of 1969, probably about 1% on a seasonally adjusted basis. Standard & Poor's forecasts a significant decline in the first quarter of 1970, and Chase Manhattan Bank expects the drop to continue through the third...
...increasing confidence toward a personal answer. What Bellow continues to do with splendid energy in his new book, Mr. Sammler's Planet, is nothing less than clear a place in the rubble where a man can stand. An affirmation? The cant word embarrasses. It suggests fetid molecules of doubt coated with pine scent. But yes, Bellow affirms...