Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Watergate, "serious criminal statutes were involved. Officials were obstructing an FBI investigation, there was a 'smoking-gun tape,' the White House was paying burglars to keep quiet. Here, everything is murky." Attorney Arthur Christy, a former special prosecutor who investigated charges against Jimmy Carter's aide Hamilton Jordan, also doubts that convictions can be achieved. Says he: "A good prosecutor might convince some jurors that North broke the law, but I doubt he could get twelve...
Experts warn that such grandiose projects involve heavy risks. "Without doubt, a high-tech military industry can generate economic growth," says Stephanie Neuman, a Columbia University political scientist. "But a nation must not only want to invest. It must be able to afford it as well...
...long as most U.S. homes have had television sets, the A.C. Nielsen company has provided the official figures on who was watching what. But now Nielsen's ratings supremacy is in doubt for the first time in more than 30 years. Last week CBS became the second network to say it will not renew its long-standing contract to receive Nielsen data. The CBS agreement expires at the end of August. ABC allowed its annual contract to lapse in March, and is now buying Nielsen's services month by month while the network tries to negotiate new terms. Losing...
...doubt the author's devotion to both literature and crusades, but Grass, 59, seems to be growing impatient with keeping the two activities separate. Witness The Rat, a novel in which imaginative extravagance is yoked to a relentless jeremiad about the despoliation of the earth. The result is a struggle between an art that teases and an argument that harangues. The loser, hands down...
Much has been made about the enigma of North. But that is in large part because this earnest, magnetic, often generous man has been his own best mythologizer, telling reporters and acquaintances stories about himself that bent the truth. Blissfully free of self-doubt, he could be a victim of self- delusion. At the National Security Council, he exaggerated his closeness to the President. In running the contra supply network and the arms-for-hostages swap, he seemed to shuttle between fantasy and reality, as he devised the most bizarre schemes to reach his goals. He spoke often of duty...