Word: doubted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...portion of the $693 million policy sold to the National Power Corporation to cover the Bataan plant. The ambitious entrepreneur also bought controlling interest in the consortium of firms that are constructing the generator under contract from Westinghouse. But the fate of these lucrative enterprises may now be in doubt. Marcos last week ordered his Department of Industry "to look into what corporations of Mr. Disini's can be legitimately divested from him, especially those for which he has obtained government help...
...deployment of the Luftwaffe's first jet warplanes. Immersing himself in accounts of the Punic Wars and biographies of Prussia's Frederick the Great, he searches for historical examples of nations that averted disaster at the very last moment and concludes: "There is no question of any doubt in my mind regarding the possibility of victory for our cause...
...novels for which she was best known, but Glendinning offers useful glosses on others as well. With varying success, Bowen constantly attacked a single problem: the effect of innocence on a world that was not ready to cope with it. "There is no doubt," she wrote in 1932, "that angels rush in before fools." She amplified this view on another occasion: "No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden." Her style was difficult and sometimes, in its defiance of syntax...
WHEN THE LONG and controversial Mashpee trial finally ended last week, the Wamponoag Indians of Mashpee, Massachusetts had ample cause to doubt the white man's system of justice. And his logic: the federal jury of eight white men and four white women ruled that the Wamponoags were not a tribe on four legally crucial dates, but were a tribe on four legally crucial dates, but were a tribe on two other dates. The confusing and contradictory decision proved a fitting ending to a trial ineptly-handled at best, and morally questionable at worst. The jury's verdict...
...important order to any of these categories, but Ed emphasizes that he just doesn't want anyone to make special allowances for him because he is blind or black. He adds that he tries to deal with people, especially Harvard people, by giving them the benefit of the doubt...