Word: doubtfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure, major exceptions) the undergraduate student aid programs redistribute income progressively. For example, the education opportunity grant program channels two thirds of its funds to students whose parents are in the lowest income quartiles. Less than 2 per cent are channeled to the top income quartile. There is no doubt that the redistributional characteristics of undergraduate student aid could be improved, but large numbers of low-income students depend on this support for their education. It is not clear what purpose would be served by driving these funds out of the University...
...Harris observes, one mark of alienation is to doubt the conventional values of established morality, and many in the poll considered certain acts justified that have been overwhelmingly considered immoral in the past, Of those surveyed, 30% believe that the use of physical violence is justified in certain circumstances; that figure is 38% among those under 30 and 35% among white-collar workers. Overall, 29% also feel that unjust laws may be ignored, a figure that rises to 39% among those under 30 and to 38% among professional people, Divorce is sanctioned by 72% (84% among professionals), telling lies...
...love and sleeping with a girl. The responses were nearly identical, which indicates that most American parents are now willing to concede girls as much sexual freedom as boys. "The impact of the pill has been decisive indeed," Harris notes. He adds: "There is little doubt that America has come a long way toward both recognizing sexual practices in something less than forbidden terms and in acknowledging the growing liberality of sex behavior, especially among the young...
...Senator Edward Kennedy, recently issued a 340-page report critical of the ABM. In a letter introducing the committee, Acheson denied that its intent was to plead for high defense budgets, explaining that it sought merely to foster "balanced debate" on such issues as ABM. However, he left no doubt as to where the committee would stand on the ABM. Charging that the opposition proposed a "one-sided United States moratorium" on defense-missile systems, he ridiculed this as a method for achieving arms-control negotiations...
...time they splashed down in the Pacific last week, Apollo 10 Astronauts Tom Stafford, Eugene Cernan and John Young had erased just about all doubt that the U.S. can meet its goal of landing men on the moon before the end of 1970. Even as the astronauts were being welcomed aboard the recovery carrier Princeton, American space officials were looking confidently ahead to the Apollo 11 lunar-landing mission now scheduled for July. Said Thomas Paine, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Houston: "Today, this moment, with the Apollo 10 crew safely on board, we know...