Word: doubted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...polluters than ever. The EPA fears that decontrolling prices will merely widen the gap between the cost of leaded and unleaded gas and encourage more drivers to skirt the law that requires unleaded in new cars. Says one DOE official about the panoply of contradictory regulations: "There is no doubt that we have really screwed things...
Last week Rockefeller's venture-partly, no doubt, because the name makes such an inviting target-provoked a furious attack from the Art Dealers Association of America, a group of 105 of the leading U.S. dealers. Though not known for its militancy in the past, and hardly opposed to the profit motive, this eminent body went for the jugular. Rocky's reproductions, it said, "are not works of fine art, have no intrinsic aesthetic worth and have little or no resale value." Having denounced this "shameful venture," the A.D.A.A. also called on museums to stop "making and selling...
...better. The Brink's gang is played by a bunch of lovable actors who delight in the roles of these bumbling underdogs. Heading the group is Peter Falk as the mastermind--if you can call him that--of this near-perfect heist. His criminal genius is somewhat in doubt, since the movie opens with one of his novice efforts, the burglary of a sausage factory. After much tool-dropping and other displays of incompetence, the job ends with Falk hiding in a room full of chickens, only to be hauled off to jail by a feather-covered cop. Undaunted...
...hoopsters played consistent basketball throughout the game and the outcome was never really in doubt from the start. The Crimson five led by as much as 44-31 in the first half, and Springfield never came closer than seven points in the second half...
...answer of these members was no, because, in the words of one, it was "too much democracy." Since some committee members have shown what I consider paternalistic attitudes towards South African blacks, suggesting that blacks do not know what is best for themselves, I wonder why these members should doubt the rights of the white elite to rule the supposedly uninformed blacks...