Word: doubtfulness
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...Meanwhile, for some, a new Dean’s tenure begins in a haze of doubt and disrespect...
...action of the film. The costumes are true to the era, and the wistful piano melodies add to the slightly nostalgic atmosphere. Visually, the movie is beautiful and artistic, but the plot is too predictable. Despite her troubles and social handicaps, there’s not a lot of doubt that Miss Pettigrew will get her happy ending. The memory of Adams singing a sweet musical number may linger after the movie ends, but “Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day” is largely forgettable. This is director Bharat Nalluri’s first feature-length film...
...this sly, wafting doubt is the greatest injury done. When perfectly able minorities must constantly disprove a default presumption of being unqualified for their jobs—that is a problem. When, to remedy racial and gender barriers in society, we conjure up new negative associations—that is a problem...
...taken away without regard for the law. The declaration by the Zhuhai villagers is the latest in a series of such actions that now involve tens of thousands of farmers all over China. While it is too early to describe this as an organized national movement, there's little doubt that such manifestos - which often use similar vocabulary and phrasing - are part of a new effort by activists and farmers to focus the government's attention on the country's 700 million peasants and the restricted claim they have on the land they work. "This is just the beginning," says...
...plot for the Senator's Chicago home, even if Obama had paid market price for it and pronounced the move "boneheaded" in retrospect. There was also Obama's strange NAFTA flap with the Canadians, in which one of his top economic advisers assured America's northern neighbor - accurately, no doubt - that Obama's anti-NAFTA ranting was just "political maneuvering" and shouldn't be taken seriously. The problem there wasn't merely that the North American Free Trade Agreement is (wrongly) considered synonymous with economic ruin in Ohio and not an issue on which a politician wants to be caught...