Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outside her parents' farmhouse in the wheat country near Sun Prairie, Wis.; the Civil War had ended less than 25 years before, the Ford was not invented, and Picasso was six. That infant memory of brightness would irradiate her work for the best part of a century, leaving no doubt, when Georgia O'Keeffe died last week in Santa Fe at the age of 98, that one of the great American lives had ended...
...knows precisely how pervasive drug use on the job is. But there is no doubt that during the past couple of decades, illegal drugs have become deeply ingrained in American life. Federal experts estimate that between 10% and 23% of all U.S. workers use dangerous drugs on the job. Other research + indicates that people who take drugs regularly, some 25% of the population according to Government calculations, are likely to use them at work or at least sometimes be on a high when they arrive at the workplace. In a 1985 study conducted by the 800-COCAINE counselors...
...Christmas bills. They haven't budgeted for winning, but for how much they can afford to lose: from $30 to $2,000. (At least those are the figures they'll admit to.) Many of them say they are going to Vegas mainly to get warm. This is no doubt the reason why Mickey Koehler lugs $40 worth of quarters and $20 in dimes onto the plane--for the exercise. Still, the notion that just one of those dimes in the right slot machine could mean a bright red vintage MG isn't entirely incidental...
...potential revenue from an amnesty is enormous: $81.5 billion in federal taxes went uncollected in 1981 alone, according to Internal Revenue Service estimates, and amnesty proponents predict that a one-time program could glean $8.6 billion. But many in Washington doubt that tax dodgers can be enticed into paying up. Since studies indicate that most people who take advantage of state amnesties faithfully file U.S. tax returns, presumably because of stricter enforcement at the federal level, the House Budget Committee reckons that a federal pardon might raise only $1 billion to $2 billion. Critics of an amnesty, including...
Exactly. Not every deposed "strongman" and dictatorial Alldaddy ends up as shattered as Lear on the heath. Napoleon was comfortable enough. He had a girlfriend called Rosebud and spent much of his day soaking in the tub. But no doubt a peculiar loneliness descends upon the autocrat condemned to live out his days in one of the upstairs rooms, like a mental case in the family. He is the Wizard of Oz, bereft of his wonder machine...