Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shadow of Doubt Wed.-Thurs...
...soon as he was able, Father Jenco left for Rome, London and Washington to deliver messages from his former captors to the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury and President Reagan. He was determined to do this in person in order to leave no doubt whatever in his captors' minds that he had kept his word, explained Terry Waite, the Archbishop's special envoy, who has visited Beirut three times in an effort to gain the hostages' release...
...gently: "That's what I want to do--I want to go home." What he will do after that is anyone's guess. His Servite Order announced last week that he has actually been offered his old job as Catholic Relief Services director in Lebanon. "I would sort of doubt that Father Jenco will want to go back to Beirut," an official of the order told the Chicago Sun-Times. "But you never know. He is the type of person who might say, " 'Sure...
...price for that money," says Dennis Kendig, a partner in the modest-size Los Angeles firm of Sachs & Phelps. "You pay in quality of life." Hard work has always been a hallmark of the legal profession, and the reservoirs of public sympathy for well-paid attorneys are no doubt a trifle shallow. But even soaring salaries can seem a poor return for years spent on the assembly line of the law. The result: some large firms now commonly lose up to one-half of their associates. On Wall Street, for instance, many defect to investment banking, a field that lets...
There is no doubt that the Army needs a new battlefield air-defense system. The problem with FAAD, however, is that it could collapse under its own weight, leaving this critical need unmet. Army officials conceded to a House subcommittee early this year that the final price tag could be as high as $22 billion. Warns Oregon Republican Congressman Denny Smith: "The Army is going into a $20 billion swamp. The chances are good that it can spend billions and lose another decade, and still not have an effective air-defense weapon...