Word: doubted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nobel Peace Prize [Nov. 6] will no doubt encourage Sadat and Begin in their arduous task, but it is this writer's view that the awards were premature. A successful peace settlement should bring world recognition to Sadat and Begin, or to whoever accomplishes it, only after it happens...
...writes good wage pacts. He enjoys the respect and admiration of minority groups. He is gutsy, no doubt about that. A businessman, a czar, has to be in charge of the economy. Nothing is going to be accomplished until the people overseas see that somebody is in charge. Also, there are elements of leadership in the Ways and Means Committee, and they will listen to someone who speaks their language. Ford is the kind...
...resolutions ranged from the arts and humanities to welfare reform and the problems of minority women, to abortion and the Equal Rights Amendment. The delegates had answered the old question "What do women want?" When the conference ended in a chorus of We Shall Go Forth, there was little doubt that they would...
...emotionally invalid or, at last, hopelessly and rather touchingly quaint. The women's movement called a world of once reflexive rituals into doubt. The masculine urge to rise when a woman entered the room seemed a sort of humiliating impulse, uncontrollable, incontinent. A man seated on the downtown bus might endure agonies of self-examination before offering his seat to a woman. The male had to learn to size up the female by age, education and possible ferocity of feminism before opening a door for her: Would the courtesy offend her? It made for ambiguity: If a man studiously refuses...
...about 1%, and the blame lies partly with excessive regulation. In a landmark study, Economist Edward Denison of the liberal-oriented Brookings Institution calculated that environmental, health and safety regulations cut 1.4 points per year from U.S. productivity growth between 1967 and 1975. "There can be no doubt," says a study by the President's Council on Wage and Price Stability, "that much of the productivity collapse in mining and in utilities can be attributed to social legislation that protects the environment and safety of miners...