Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...come from Chairman Lee Iacocca, the man who hatched the comeback of the convertible in 1982. Instead, the America concept sprang from two of Iacocca's potential successors, Gerald Greenwald, chairman of the company's automaking division, and Harold Sperlich, its president. The automaker's stockholders will no doubt take it as a promising sign that Chrysler's top managers have learned how to think like Iacocca. When Chrysler's 62-year-old rescuer retires in the next few years, the company will have to get by without its most valuable asset...
...took only a single paragraph (four sentences, 91 words) to change the course of an ancient debate. "There is now no doubt," said Surgeon General C. Everett Koop in his grim report on AIDS last month, "that we need sex education in schools and that it must include information on heterosexual and homosexual relationships." With characteristic bluntness, Koop made it clear that he was talking about graphic instruction starting "at the lowest grade possible," which he later identified as Grade 3. Because of the "deadly health hazard," he said later, "we have to be as explicit as necessary...
Saturday's contest was never in doubt, as Radcliffe (now 3-4) was held scoreless...
...danger is that an overly stimulative policy could cause a new outbreak of virulent inflation. Even Johnson appears to be growing cautious. "Our first responsibility," he says, "is to stabilize prices." Though the minutes of the board's meeting will not be disclosed for several weeks, Fed watchers doubt that the governors changed their current policy...
...more confrontational or more compromising? "The President must go about things in a more conciliatory fashion," says White House Pollster Richard Wirthlin. "His proposals must be made in a focused, targeted way. It will be critical to take a few important goals and to drive them hard." Some observers doubt that the Reaganauts, except perhaps for the President himself, have any great gift for the art of political compromise. Indeed, just about the only aide left in Reagan's inner circle who is adept at handling Congress, Mitch Daniels, may leave the Administration soon. Norman Ornstein, a political scientist...