Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like Colombia's Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, couldn't rise above the jolting absence of the FARC's mysterious 68-year-old chief, Manuel ("Sureshot") Marulanda. He had been expected to attend but instead left Pastrana forlorn at the head of the table and the peace talks in doubt. Marulanda privately told government officials he still supports the process but warned, "We will remain in a fighting stance...
...Monica who?" deadpans a regular trial observer, and there's no doubt that the details that have unfolded during Capano's trial are far more lurid than anything in the Ken Starr report. The loquacious lawyer and son of a self-made construction-industry tycoon is charged with murder in the first degree of his former lover Anne Marie Fahey, who had risen from her working-class background to land a job as scheduling secretary for Governor Thomas Carper...
...votes. The other item of business which the council took up on Sunday, and which concerns the larger student body is how to spend the $40,000 the council "lost" and re-found in the fall. This decision should be put to a campus-wide referendum. There is no doubt in our minds that by misplacing such a large amount of the student's money the council forfeited its right to decide how to spend...
...store also rents videos and has a television and VCR which they use for movie showings. They recently showed "A Case of Reasonable Doubt," and HBO documentary about the controversial imprisonment of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a radio reporter jailed in Pennsylvania for the murder of a police officer...
There's no doubt that reform is needed. In September the Swiss senate granted the I.O.C. a tax abatement worth $1.5 million for "public service to Switzerland"--a country seeking the 2006 Winter Olympics for its mountain resort Sion. The lower house of parliament has yet to approve the windfall, but it may heed Finance Minister Kaspar Villiger, who persuaded reluctant senators to approve the tax break even if it meant "holding their noses...