Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Moscow was prompt in denouncing the decision as "crawling out" of arms control. On the contrary, Reagan did not want to jeopardize the prospects for progress in the arms talks now under way in Geneva. The new negotiations, he concluded, are difficult enough without having the U.S. cast into doubt whether it intends to abide by the old agreements...
...Analysts doubt, however, that investors in De Lorean's comeback attempt will ever see any profits. "I think it would be more fun to just go out and throw your money off the Brooklyn Bridge," says David Healy, an auto company expert at Drexel Burnham Lambert. De Lorean is still under investigation for allegedly defrauding investors in his last company of millions of dollars...
...success depends as much on the eager passivity of consumers as on the opportunism to which America, besotted with cultural therapy, consigns its talents. No culture needs a hegemony to produce its quota of strong artists; such people do continue to emerge in the U.S. But there is no doubt that the American dominance in world painting that seemed a fact of life 20 years ago is finished, and no effort of marketing can revive...
...fact, despite the abysmal state of fashion and ephemera, some depictive art of the '80s in America is in fine shape. Those who doubt this might consult the current retrospective of the fluent, tantalizingly mysterious work of Jennifer Bartlett, 44, at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. One might also adduce the small, concentrated paintings of Mark Innerst, 28, which inject photo-derived images of Great Tourist Views (colossi of Memnon in Egypt, the Hudson River landscape of the 19th century) with a remarkable feel for the subtleties of atmosphere...
...continued opposition to the presence of U.S. bases, Papandreou negotiated a five-year renewal of the leases in 1983. Says an adviser at NATO headquarters in Brussels: "By his standards, at least, he has been less extreme. We're hoping everyone will give him the benefit of the doubt...