Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among the six L.D.P. factions, several ambitious party leaders would no doubt like to replace Nakasone as Japan's Prime Minister. One of the top three contenders: Finance Minister Noboru Takeshita, 62, who belongs to the large faction of ailing former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka. Though Tanaka was convicted in 1983 on charges of accepting a $1.6 million bribe from Lockheed in 1977, his faction remains very powerful...
YMCA officials dismiss charges that they are crowding private gyms. Commercial operators, says John Ouellet, president of the Los Angeles YMCA, would no doubt prefer the Y to "put up a building as dilapidated as the one we tore down." When private clubs fail, he contends, the reason is often poor management, not competition from a well-equipped Y. If anyone is encroaching, say YMCA officials, it is the private operators. The Y has been touting fitness for more than a century. Declares Thomas Hargrave Jr., president of the Washington YMCA: "We started the health-and-fitness business...
...service operates on a case-by-case basis and that if a call comes in late at night, asking for a ride of a reasonable distance, the service will oblige. But this did not hapen last week when my roommate was refused a ride by an operator who, no doubt, was just doing...
...action plans: they should be limited in duration and not "unnecessarily trammel" the rights of white workers. They must be carefully tailored to remedy the precise type of discrimination in each case and avoid rigid quotas. Those guidelines leave room for considerable argument in the lower courts, and no doubt affirmative- action plans will continue to be challenged by whites with the backing of the Reagan Administration...
...report by Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health. Fauci revealed that one of his AIDS patients had regained his health and returned to work after treatment that included a bone-marrow transplant from his identical twin. Whether the patient has been permanently cured remains in doubt, and two other victims who received the same therapy have not improved. Fauci himself pointedly refrained from characterizing the procedure as a success, saying, "This is not a breakthrough, (just) a small but important building block of knowledge...