Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THERE was no doubt, once the tapes were obtained, that Richard Nixon had acted wrongfully. There will never be any way of knowing the full truth because he will never tell us. Nixon is a man who wants to vindicate his place in history. Escaping prosecution, however, has allowed him to be in the improved position he is now. If Nixon is accepted as an elder statesman, the lessons on the corruption of power that Watergate supposedly taught us will be lost...
Mikhail Gorbachev may finally get his way. Two months ago, the Soviet leader said he wanted to begin withdrawing the 115,000 Soviet troops mired in Afghanistan by May 15, but deadlocked negotiations in Geneva over the precise terms of the pullout cast doubt on his schedule. The snag was caused by Washington's insistence that the U.S. could arm Afghanistan resistance fighters as long as Moscow continued to provide military help to Kabul's Communist regime...
...beyond the obvious attempts to stamp their products with the imprimatur of high culture, the questions remains as to why these authors in particular are chosen. After all, there's no dearth of well-known dead writers. In the case of James, Rolls Royce no doubt was aware that the famed American anglophile would be the perfect author to endorse this symbol of British luxury to an American audience...
...another thing, everyone knows that Michael has been sleeping in an oxygen tank. He hopes it will help him live to be at least 150 years old--although I doubt his joints could handle the moonwalk at that ripe...
...allow a preacher of the Gospel, when he is caught beyond the shadow of a doubt committing an immoral act . . . to remain in his position as pastor (or whatever), would be the most gross stupidity." Under the rules of the Assemblies of God, such a sinner must be suspended from preaching for one year and put on probation for a second year, or else there is a danger that the "whole church will be destroyed...