Word: doubted
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That, of course, was a considerable rush to judgment. But the already beleaguered nuclear power industry had clearly suffered a crippling setback. Not only are its plans for expansion now in grave doubt, but the Three Mile Island accident came at a time when President Carter was about to propose a new approach to the nation's energy problems. He had already urged a speedup in putting new nuclear power plants into operation by reducing the years it takes to pass through all of the regulatory challenges. While a case could still be made that bureaucratic indecision and delay ought...
...well the Democrats' "turtle" strategy against the amendment will work is in doubt. Only shrewd parliamentary maneuvering by Senate Democratic leaders last week prevented passage of a Republican-sponsored amendment as part of the bill increasing the national debt limit to $830 billion from $798 billion. In place of the G.O.P. measure, the Democrats substituted a diluted rider that requires congressional budget committees to draw up a balanced budget for fiscal 1981 and 1982. But the amendment does not bind Congress to adopt the committees' recommendations. Complained Kansas Republican Senator Robert Dole: "This is a hoax...
Otto Eckstein, Warburg Professor of Economics, said 'yesterday, "No doubt MIT has a more appealing graduate program, but Harvard's is on the road to reconstruction...
...From 1200 on, it was clear we were going to win. California and Wisconsin were really going at it for second so they caught up a little, but there was no doubt we had it," coxswain Harry You said yesterday...
...investment is principally funded), is not so much a question of "if" but "where." Their tendency to choose foreign locations over domestic is the real problem with investment in America. Given the massive political uncertaincies inherent in many foreign nations, it is dubious that a few percentage points of doubt present in the U.S. are decisive. Far more important are the basic factor costs of labor, capital, materials, and land in real terms. U.S. deficit spending does not affect the wage of factory workers in Taiwan, or the proximity of ore in Southern Africa...