Word: doubted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...argues that the surpluses will soon be eaten up by the costs of building an industrial society at home. Meanwhile, he insists, the country must keep its money in short-term investments so that it can bring it home as soon as it is needed. Many Western experts doubt that Saudi Arabia will ever find productive domestic uses for all its oil revenues, but Aboul-Kheil seems genuinely to believe that it will...
Some may well have left because they couldn't be bothered to listen to the report on teaching or because they disapproved of it, but I doubt that there were many they were not. Some whom I saw leave I know to be very concerned with the quality of teaching here. Others were not teachers. Add to this the fact that we were listening, after all, to a long summary of a report we'd already been given to read and that the room was exceedingly crowded, hot, and smoky, and what seems to me remarkable is that the vast...
Banished to Section 40 as a sophomore, I had consoled myself with Jack Daniels and divination: no doubt that, when a senior, I would gaze down like Caesar at the spectacle laid before...
...such luck. I rather doubt anyone's claim to worse seats than ours at The Game on Saturday. Though it consisted of seniors only, our group was awarded seats in row "B", roughly eighteen inches above sea level. Moreover, these seats were at the 40 yard line: had they been hear the end zone, we might have been afforded at least a worm's eye view of some of the action. As it was, apart from an occasional glimpse of Joe Restic, we saw nothing but second string backsides...
...Sacco's last wish may not have been as hopeless as it seemed in the troubled '20s. Gov. Michael S. Dukakis declared in July 1977 that the prejudice against Italians and anarchists that prevailed during Sacco and Vanzetti's six-year prosecution raised considerable doubt as to the fairness of the trial. Meanwhile, small groups of anarchists and libertarians are emerging and are bringing their unique political perspective to bear on the problems...