Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four incumbents were re-elected by comfortable margins, but the remaining two seats were in doubt until last night, when they went to Independent James J. Rafferty and CCA member Henrietta Davis. Political observers had speculated that the CCA might gain a majority in the body by squeezing in a fourth member...
When schism split the East bloc in 1960, Moscow and Beijing became clinched in an acrimonious contest for ideological supremacy. The Kremlin no doubt felt relief at the end of the Maoist era. Nonetheless, the mixture of central planning and market economics that developed in China starting in 1978 initially prompted criticism that Beijing was heading down the capitalist road. Since Gorbachev launched his own brand of Communist reconstruction early last year, mutual suspicion has given way to cautious interest and growing - cooperation. Last year China exported $1.2 billion worth of goods to the Soviet Union, compared with only...
From about 1980 onward Rothenberg took more to an open weaving with the brush, dabbing her pigment into a field of hatchings. There is so much overpainting and layering in her recent work that the paintings seem to have grown excruciatingly slowly. They carry a patina of doubt on every square inch of their surface. But they do breathe: light and air -- of a rather claustral kind, but atmosphere just the same -- bathe the bodies and unify them as objects in the world while threatening always to dissolve them as emblems of personality. The surfaces look as if they came...
...Huntington returned to South Africa during Harvard's summer break. No doubt he was gratified to discover how much influence his earlier paper had had. According to a South African political scientist, the "profound manner in which Huntington's address to the Political Science Association of South Africa prescribed or reflected state strategy is clear in the light of subsequent events." (4) Huntington's reform strategy quite definitely informed the South African government's efforts. His 1981 paper helped provide the intellectual justification for, and is cited extensively in, proposals for the 1984 constitution, cornerstone of State President P.W. Botha...
...City Councilor William H. Walsh, does not propose to eliminate controls on apartments rented to low-income, handicapped, and elderly tenants. Walsh's unsuccessful 1986 rent proposal would have set aside 30% of all rental units for the needy. Need would be assessed by a means test, similar no doubt to the annoying but sensible financial aid forms many of us fill out year after year...