Word: doubted
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...freshly carpeted chamber of the House of Representatives, flanked by TelePrompTers and with a huge American flag as a backdrop, Jimmy Carter was a President with a heap of problems-and a rare opportunity. After a disappointing first year, his ability to inspire the nation was in doubt, and his popularity was continuing to slide in the polls. The ABC-Harris poll placed his approval at 41%; a CBS-New York Times survey gave him a 51% rating. Yet the annual rush of late-January presidential messages, from the State of the Union speech to his budget and economic reports...
...assume the directorship, Webster must first be confirmed by the Senate, but there appears to be little doubt about that. Scarcely a negative word was uttered about Webster after his nomination, and the only possible problem might be his membership in St. Louis' Veiled Prophet Society and the Noonday Club, two exclusive groups that have no black members. Bell noted that he had studied Webster's court decisions and found him to be a "moderate person" who "reasons well...
...first projects begun by Carter after taking office, but it still took almost a year to produce. One reason: he rejected the first version, submitted in August by the National Security Council, as incomprehensible. An adviser recalls that the President said, "I don't understand it, and I doubt anybody else...
...County sheriffs office is looking into the disappearance of seven horses. Early this month, thieves cut the fence of the 79-acre farm owned by Leonard and Ruth Genge in Washington township and made off with three mares and Leonard's quarter-horse, Sam. While some horses no doubt end up as dog food, the detective on the case suspects that the best of the rustled nags are sold for as much as 400 per lb. (large stallions bring $450), trucked to Canada, butchered and shipped to Europe. There, horse meat is welcomed by discriminating continental eaters, who consider...
Some outside economists doubt that the Government's calculations are right even now. Otto Eckstein, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, questions whether the December jobless rate was really only 6.4% and believes it was "physically impossible" for 1.3 million new jobs to be created in November and December, which is what the Administration says happened. But even Eckstein concedes that unemployment is indeed coming down, and President Carter naturally hailed the news with delight. He cautioned, though, that the nation still needs the tax cut of $25 billion a year that he will propose...