Word: doubted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that we're already I to some extent in the doomsday area." So said Phillip Hughes, an Assistant Secretary in the Department of Energy and head of the federal-state task force dealing with the nation's spreading coal shortage. Hughes was exaggerating, but there was no doubt that the coal strike, now in its third month, had become a major threat to the U.S. economy...
...been willing to sacrifice ourselves, if necessary, to save the presidency that we believed in." The coverup, in short, was not such an evil to Bob Haldeman that he would refuse to try it again if he thought he could make it work. Says he: "There is absolutely no doubt in my mind today that if I were back at the starting point, faced with the decision of whether to join up, even knowing what the ultimate outcome would be, I would unhesitatingly...
Jerusalem is determined to fight the sale to the Saudis on the ground that it represents a strategic threat to Israel's security. Said a high Foreign Ministry official to TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff: "Does anyone doubt that in a future war the Saudis would come under Arab pressure to use these planes against Israel?" As it is, the Saudis along with Egypt, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, plan to spend $10 billion to construct a new military-manufacturing city of 80,000 to 100,000 people 35 miles southeast of Riyadh, the Saudi capital...
Coma is the worst major film to appear this year, and without a doubt the most offensive. Director Michael Crichton '64 uses operations to keep the audience on its toes, and since the movie is devoid of humor there's nothing to relieve the tension. It's so solemn and literal-minded that it makes The Exorcist look positively expressionistic. Richard Widmark plays the head of a Boston hospital where young, healthy patients keep going into unexplained comas during routine operations. When he explains why he's doing it--the unimportance of the individual compared with the advancement of science...
...insurers clearly have a First Amendment right to influence legislation." Adds University of Illinois Professor Jeffrey O'Connell: "A court clampdown on advertising is a raw, brutal way of handling the problem. Plaintiffs' lawyers are adequately protected by voir dire [jury selection] procedure." Most analysts doubt the trial lawyers will succeed in muffling the insurers but see the lawyers' maneuvers as effective nonetheless. Says The Research Group's Gingerich: "The insurance companies and trade associations will have to be much more careful in representing the nature and scope of the problem...