Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Saturday's game was never in doubt, as the Crimson jumped to a 10-0 lead in the first few minutes and never looked back. The ruggers held a 23-0 lead at the half...
...barracks where Gaddafi lives, Administration officials insisted they were not trying to kill him. "He was not a direct target," said Secretary of State George Shultz. Pentagon Spokesman Robert Sims elaborated: "The nerve center was the target, not the individual." Privately, though, Reagan's aides left no doubt that, to put it mildly, they would not have been unhappy if Gaddafi just happened to die in the raid. The distinction appeared to be largely legalistic; a long-standing U.S. Executive Order forbids attempts to assassinate foreign heads of state, and it would be an extremely fine point whether that includes...
...economic sanctions on Libya, were careful to balance criticisms of the American raid with strong condemnations of Libya and terrorism. Opposition politicians, especially those on the left, were less circumspect. In the Netherlands, for example, Foreign Minister Hans van den Broek observed in fairly mild terms that "we seriously doubt if terrorism can be actually erased this way," but Klaas de Vries, parliamentary spokesman for the Labor Party, thundered that the strikes "made fools of all European ministers who had urged restraint...
...There is discontent, no doubt about it," said Swamy. He said that although Gandhi "enjoys a huge majority" of political support in parliament, he has recently lost the backing of 12 of 24 provinces in popular elections...
...note with interest the establishment of a new program to prepare scholars to teach "applied ethics." I do not doubt that something like it is much needed. But I always thought that human life itself was supposed to be applied ethics...