Word: doubted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Less sanguine is Washington Economic Consultant Robert Nathan, who argues that "Proposition 13 has more to do with a feeling of government inefficiency" than with the tax bills. "I doubt that California can live with the kind of cut in services that is expected," says Nathan, "and I expect an eventual rise in income taxes and other business taxes...
Daniel J. Boorstin: The Courage to Doubt...
...kind of hard dogmatist. He has brought with him the crusade that has cursed the older world. He seeks unity, virtue, morality, uniformity, dignity and - above all - "the right not to know." But these have very little to do with the mixed virtues - the virtues of compromise, decency, self-doubt, experiment - the meandering quest for community that has tantalized our American world of second chances...
Only a tiny minority of girls appear to want to play contact sports against boys. But there is no doubt that the girls want and indeed are insisting upon a fair chance to develop their athletic abilities. Their cause is being substantially helped, albeit unevenly so far, by a section of the Education Amendments Act passed by Congress in 1972: the passage known as Title IX. In essence, Title IX forbids sex discrimination any educational institution receiving federal funds. The prohibition applies on the athletic fields as well as in classrooms. To enforce Title IX, Congress gave the Department...
...this stage. Parents should resist some demands, give in to others. A child who wins too often emerges "with an overly extended, overly grand notion of its power." But a child who loses too many battles "emerges from its second birth with a pervasive sense of humiliation and self-doubt." If so, it will develop into a compliant child whose protest may emerge late as bedwetting, foolish behavior or theft...