Word: doubting
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...growing body of evidence demonstrating them. Journalist David Owen's recent devastating attack on the validity of the SAT, for example, shows that contrary to popular assumptions, students can be coached to do better on standardized tests--perhaps even to the tune of 100 points. Not withstanding the considerable doubt such findings cast on the notion of the SAT as objective measure of "aptitude," it is clear that the benefits of coaching are only available to a select few who can afford...
...past reform failures. I don't know how many of the past efforts were as comprehensive as this is, and I would doubt whether there has been as much presidential time, attention and assets devoted to them as I anticipate will be devoted to this. This, after all, was the centerpiece of the President's State of the Union address...
When a car bomb exploded on March 8 in a Beirut suburb, killing more than 80 people and injuring 200, there was little doubt as to the attack's target. The detonation took place just 50 yds. from the home of Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, spiritual leader of the Hizballah (Party of God), a militant pro-Iranian Shi'ite group. Several of Fadlallah's bodyguards were among the victims, but the sheik, who was in a nearby mosque, was uninjured. No one ever claimed responsibility for the incident...
...resigned. Shumway, though, points out that Hennessy, Dingman and he have long known one another and that the merger was a friendly one. Nonetheless, he does not rule out the possibility of dissension. Says he: "It's very tough to say whether we'll have serious conflicts, though I doubt it." As a way to avoid at least one problem, all three executives will receive exactly the same...
...hard-line passages in his prepared address, but the text remains the Pontiff's most forthright statement on his approach toward Protestantism. Discussion of joint Communion services is futile, he indicated, and Rome is unwilling to explore changes in the nature of the priesthood. The speech removed any remaining doubt that John Paul now foresees substantial ecumenical progress only with the Eastern Orthodox churches...