Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even strategists who doubt Caddell's formulation that a political party, like a French noun, can connote gender, concede that the Democrats must strive to convey toughness if they are to attract the defectors and younger men who contributed heavily to both Reagan landslides. Pollster Stanley Greenberg, after studying switch voters, points out, "Younger voters, even more than others, respond strongly to candidates who seem determined to pursue clear goals -- regardless of what those goals are." It worked for Reagan and for Oliver North...
...Britain faced a real challenge in trying to remain an "island of rapid growth without an improvement in its main trading partners." The same task confronts Italy, which is expected to expand at a 3% rate this year. Said Guido Carli, former Governor of the Bank of Italy: "I doubt that Italy can sustain a growth rate that is higher than the overall average for the European Community...
...culprit in the second accident also resides in the Yard--in the houses of the Administration. PBH can hardly be blamed for this one. Indeed, there is no doubt that, if a less well-trained driver had been at the wheel, all the passengers could hardly have safely escaped...
...cannot know. But as the legal philosopher Ronald Dworkin has noted, where once Bork opposed civil rights legislation in the name of protecting the autonomy of state legislatures, he now opposes state gay rights legislation. Dworkin asks the appropriate question: does Bork's position in the latter cast doubt on his reasoning in the former. Could it be that Bork's guiding arrow is not a belief in the right of states to decide things for themselves, but rather his adherence to conservative prejudices...
Long ago, Leo Durocher said that nice guys finish last. Baseball players are finally taking his advice. Pitchers who play a little chin music no longer receive the benefit of the doubt. Throwing the high hard stuff inside is tantamount to a declaration of war, and retaliation by the batter follows shortly...