Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conservatives insist that three years of welfare reform have proved what they believed all along: that the best way to get welfare recipients into private-sector jobs is to subject them to strict work requirements. Also, conservatives doubt that billions of dollars in government programs are needed to prepare the hard to serve for work. "There's a great irony to that argument," says Douglas Besharov, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. "Welfare reform has already accomplished a 40%-to-50% decline in the rolls without spending money on job training...
...says the government will argue that its attack is covered by a doctrine of international law known as sovereign immunity and cannot be challenged in court. Disagreement persists in the government, he concedes, as to whether Idris knew chemical-weapon feedstocks were in his factory, but it has no doubt they were. Faced with the same decision, he insists, the U.S. would attack again...
...tons of stuff on any big names in the news," says ROBERT BROWN, an agent for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. "The big question is, Did those who wanted the information know how Touch Tone was getting it?" Deputy District Attorney DENNIS HALL of Jefferson County has little doubt: "It's like buying stolen property and getting it on the cheap. It's hard to believe that they didn't know it was obtained illegally...
...doubt that Harvard professors make a living wage. But new data taken from universities nationwide claims that faculty in Cambridge may not be earning as much as they appear...
...being very careful not to repeat the mistake that preceded the 1991 Gulf War, when Washington failed to make clear to Saddam Hussein that it would not tolerate Iraq's invading Kuwait," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "This time they want to leave no room for doubt that they would respond if China attacks...