Word: doubtings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Trade experts doubt that the election will make much difference in how the law is administered. Both George Bush and Michael Dukakis praise free trade, but both would undoubtedly succumb to political pressure to protect many U.S. industries, as President Reagan has. Dukakis might be more insistent that U.S. business do things in return, like investing in equipment and training programs to enhance competitiveness. Either candidate will do well to remember that the object of the law is not to keep foreign products out but to make sure that American goods can compete...
...doubt about it, Tucker was Coppola's kind of guy, a figure no more able to contain himself within the bounds of realism than the director is. Or suitable for representation by realistic means. Tucker was an expressionistic character in search of an auteur. A self-educated backyard inventor, he designed a high-speed armored car that the Army deemed impractical and a gun turret that it learned to love during World War II. Tucker used the prototype of the armored car (according to the film) to make ice-cream runs with his kids. The reputation he gained from...
Throughout most of Christianity's history, such views would have been condemned as heresies. The Bible was seen as divinely inspired and thus unassailably accurate. "None can doubt that what is written took place," proclaimed St. Jerome, who translated the Gospels into Latin in the 4th century. Multitudes today still regard the Scriptures in that fashion, not least among them estimable scholars and intellectuals...
Among the latter is Peter Stuhlmacher of Tubingen, who was trained by one of Bultmann's followers. Says he: "As a Western Scripture scholar, I am inclined to doubt these ((Gospel)) stories, but as a historian I am obliged to take them as reliable." He now tells his own students, "The biblical texts as they stand are the best hypothesis we have until now to explain what really happened...
...mention over the fundamental issue of who Jesus was. One eminent theologian, Yale University's George Lindbeck, finds the specialists' theories "mutually unintelligible" and not particularly helpful. The theories are also unstable. Funk admits that the "data base" of sayings being developed by his Jesus Seminar will no doubt have to be reworked by the next generation. At conservative Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary near Boston, David Wells complains, "The machinery has ground its material -- the biblical text -- so fine that it yields nothing...