Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their policies stink." Owen, however, was having his own problems. The Alliance had counted on this election to gain a surge of new support from middle-of-the-road voters, but its share of the popular vote actually declined nearly 3 percentage points from 1983, putting its survival in doubt. Analysts believe the Alliance suffered because there were fewer uncommitted voters in this election. The two Alliance parties may also have lost support through their public disagreements over Britain's nuclear policy...
Fourth, even if all of the foregoing were not true, the idea that a superpower does not act except in conjunction with allies has become the disease of American foreign policy. Central America is without a doubt a vital American interest, but, we hear, America must not act unless Contadora or the OAS or Costa Rica -- a country with no army -- leads the way. Since it is impossible to imagine that weak countries will go where a superpower fears to tread, this requirement of allied support is a guarantee of American inaction. This is isolationism disguised as multilateralism. It betrays...
...industry's setback is likely to be short lived, however. Genentech is expected to win FDA authorization for t-PA, perhaps within a year or so. Says Robert Kupor, an industry analyst with the Seattle-based Cable, Howse & Ragen brokerage firm: "It's great stuff, and there's no doubt it will ultimately be approved." Once that happens, experts expect to see a $1 billion-a-year market for clot-dissolving drugs...
Volcker no doubt has dozens of job offers. He could easily earn $1 million a year at a Wall Street investment house, or perhaps much more if he started his own consulting firm. But some think he may resist the big money and go into academia instead, possibly teaching at Harvard or Princeton while picking up hefty consulting fees on the side. If he does join a university, his classes should be popular on campus. This is one professor who will have plenty of true-life adventures to illustrate on the chalkboard...
Underlying the soap opera is an essay on the seductive comforts of a conformist society and the way in which free thinkers inescapably disquiet the people around them. When the pastor speaks of faith, he means order, moral certitude, freedom from doubt. To him there is no deeper satisfaction than to be regarded as normal. His attitude echoes the values of a police state; when Road opened at Yale in 1984, then more effectively at Britain's National Theater in 1985, the pastor seemed a humbug, professing affection for an old friend while ruthlessly trying to have...