Word: doubted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yorkers temperamentally do not crave comfort and convenience," E.B. White wrote 30 years ago. "If they did, they would live elsewhere." They know that the city is too damned dirty, and no doubt getting dirtier, with about 50% of the sanitation trucks broken down at any given moment. (Miraculously, however, a new law requiring dog walkers to clean up after their pets is being widely obeyed.) They know that many once grassy parks have long since been scuffed to baldness. But most great cities have been dirty and dangerous-for example, ancient Rome, 18th and 19th century London. New Yorkers...
...horripilating parlors of decadence, catering to the most specialized of the perverse. Much of the rest of the nation regards New York as a cautionary tale, the urban exemplar of everything that can go wrong: poverty, pollution, crime, racial conflict, corrupt and stupid government, dirt, traffic, immorality and, no doubt, sinful pride...
...Brian O'Linn, Secretary-General of the Namibia National Front, a newly formed multiracial attempt to steer between SWAPO and its major opponent, the South African-backed Democratic Turnhalle Alliance. Says O'Linn, "the deep suspicion South Africans have about the U.N. can only be alleviated. I doubt if it will ever be resolved...
...dispatched two ships from Canton to pick up "victimized Chinese nationals" at Vietnamese ports. The ships, which were never allowed to dock, are being recalled to China?empty. Despite all the invective, both countries have agreed to resume discussions of their differences in Hanoi next week. Foreign observers, however, doubt that the low-level talks will do much to resolve what appear to be the real reasons for the neighborly conflict: Hanoi's anger at Chinese support for Viet Nam's hostile neighbor, Cambodia, and Peking's fear of expanding Soviet influence in Viet...
...nation as a whole. Ted Oliver, an engineer for Sycor in Ann Arbor, Mich., turned down a job with Memorex in the valley because he figured that, despite the handsome pay and perks, "I would have had to accept a lower living standard at double the cost." No doubt many other employees, new and old, are happy out in the valley. But with the nation's economy now slowing, the highly cyclical microelectronics industry could soon find its order books shrinking. If so, Silicon Valley might well face some layoffs instead of the free-for-all body snatching...