Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dramatic move, Anaya commuted the sentences of all five men awaiting death in New Mexico. "For me to simply walk away now will make me as much an accomplice as others who would participate in their execution," said Anaya. A court challenge is promised, though many legal observers doubt Anaya's decision can be overturned. The five New Mexico prisoners, all of whom now face life sentences, make up a minuscule minority of the estimated 1,750 on the nation's death rows...
...destruction of Les Halles rallied the preservationists. The inadequacies of Beaubourg fed a mood of doubt about "radical" museum techniques. By the early '70s it was clear to the men of the Elysee that razing the Gare d'Orsay would be a major vote-losing blunder. The Gare d'Orsay stayed, Pompidou died, and Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the new President, inherited the problem...
...populist revolutions and the collapse of monarchies, in which Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto and the grandeur of French bourgeois culture began to move toward its apogee. Courbet, not Delacroix, would thus be the emblematic figure. As for the end of the 19th century, there was never any doubt about that: it was 1914, the beginning of World...
...great success as an architect," says Italy's leading architecture critic, Bruno Zevi, who considers her work inspired and sensitive. "In another, she's unsuccessful -- up to now her work has been limited to various forms of 're': refurbishing, renovating, recycling." But after Orsay, there is no doubt that Aulenti -- who lists her primary modernist influences as Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier and above all the American architect Louis Kahn -- will be seen worldwide as a major architect, not a recycler...
...doubt any Yale students or employees will be arrested," Wilkinson said. Yale police have not yet completed their investigation. THE SCHOOL OF METAPHYSICS...