Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only sour note under the California palms was continuing reports of adverse reaction to Agnew, who Nixon had assumed would be the least controversial of running mates. "I doubt that even the closest friends of Spiro Agnew," said a Rockefeller aide, "would suggest that he is qualified to be President." "It's the same old tricky Dicky," complained Bayard Rustin, a leader of black moderates. J. Earl Bearing, a Negro member of Nixon's advisory council on crime, admitted that even he was disturbed by Agnew's billy-club approach to civil disorders...
These figures suggest a vast overkill potential. Therefore, are such new weapons really necessary? A number of scientists and other experts doubt it, and consider MIRV as superfluous and dangerous as the proposed "thin" anti-ballistic missile system. The critics argue that both unnecessarily super-intensify an arms race that ought rather to be slowing down. On the other hand, some disarmament specialists agree with Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford, who maintains that developments like MIRV are necessary for the U.S. to "negotiate from strength, not weakness." The Soviets themselves are currently pushing ahead with an ABM system, their...
There can be little doubt, however, that Biafra's leader is holding out for an airlift for other reasons, too. He knows only too well the value of an airlift as a visible symbol of the world's helping a besieged people stay alive. That, in turn...
Lesson from Stalin. Tito's visit, and the response it elicited, no doubt infuriated the Soviets, worried as they are about the consequences of the Czechoslovak precedent elsewhere in Eastern Europe...
...many pressures have converged on stock prices that few brokers last week foresaw much chance of a quick rebound, though fewer still expected the slide to grow into a severe plunge. "The market is awash in a sea of doubt," said Vice President Robert T. Allen of the Manhattan firm of Shearson, Hammill. Along with the prospect of an economic slowdown because of the 10% income tax surcharge, there were worries over declining profits, falling interest rates (which help to suck investable funds back into bonds), and reduced business spending on expansion. With many big institutional traders sitting...