Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LAST week's bomb explosion near Secretary of State George P. Shultz's motorcade in La Paz, Bolivia points to one characteristic of the Reagan Administration's Latin American policy that was previously in doubt: the United States will support governments that wage a war against drugs...
...Soviet surface navy, by contrast, continues to lag far behind Western fleets. High operating costs and wear and tear have forced Soviet ships to spend 85% of their time in port, compared with 66% for U.S. vessels. Moscow has severely curtailed Pacific-fleet activity since 1984. "There's no doubt that the Soviet navy is deploying markedly less," says Harlan Ullman, an expert on Moscow's fleet at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies. "Signs support the thesis that they are changing their strategy...
CUNY officials say that two weeks ago, during ameeting in which employment negotiations wereexpected to take place, Counter informed theadministrators that he was declining thepresidency and expressed doubt about Medgar Evers'future as a college...
...authority has rarely been in doubt since he took power as part of an unopposed army coup in 1962. In 1973 his Burmese Way to Socialism became constitutional doctrine when the country officially proclaimed itself a socialist republic. In 1981 Ne Win handed the country's presidency over to San Yu but retained power as party chairman...
...Washington, Theater Director Gillian Drake, who four years ago founded Acting for Lawyers, loosens up buttoned-down barristers by having them mime such natural events as falling rain and falling leaves. Says Drake: "Lawyers are taught by their training to doubt. I teach them that what they have to do -- and this is what actors do -- is abandon doubt and jump right in." The practice seems to work. Washington Attorney Robert Trout, who has taken a couple of Drake's classes, says they have helped him "find the human story in whatever is the subject matter of the lawsuit...