Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bill Walton, who was not used to losing, did not want to play in the consolation game against Kansas, but he did play, and UCLA won easily. But after that final college appearance, people began to doubt Walton's dedication...
Cosell's claim that his own controversial personality made Monday Night Football more interesting than other sports telecasts is unchallengable. There is no doubt that people take more notice when they are infuriated, and Cosell's inanities on Monday Night Football did a lot of infuriating. But by directing backhanded slaps at everybody from Gifford and Meredith to CBS color commentator and football God John Madden, Cosell undermines his own credibility. He is not, as he would have it, the only redeeming person in the entire sports world. And while his Sportsbeat show is critically acclaimed, it is not popularly...
THERE IS NO doubt that cigarette smoking has become a lot less popular since it has been recognized as a serious health hazard. Tobacco companies made a lot of money when people thought it was perfectly safe to smoke a pack or two a day. But prior to the Surgeon General's report cigarette smokers did not choose to begin using an addictive and deadly drug; they chose to use a product that was advertised as being entirely harmless. If tobacco companies made an honest mistake about the health effects of cigarettes, no one can blame them. But if they...
...counter-argument of the tobacco companies will no doubt be a reprise of the criticism Skinner has faced from the beginning. But of course we have free will, they'll say; people smoke because they want...
...also seriously doubt whether a federally-funded incentive program would inspire much of a change. Such a program would probably be handicapped by limited resources and faced with economic competition from other sectors. The use of economic incentives would attract only the less-advantaged and again not provide for the common civic effort that would undermine the psychological bases for bigotry, sexism and class divisions. Incidentally, I find it puzzling that the editors who argue that citizenship should be motivated by altruism would advocate economic incentives for its exercise...