Word: doubtings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...McDonnell Douglas MD-11, the replacement for the DC-10, will be fully computerized, but the wing and tail surfaces will have a mechanical backup system so that "whatever the airplane is capable of, the pilot can get full response," a spokesman says. Nonetheless, mechanical linkages will no doubt be obsolete someday. Boeing is even studying the feasibility of controls that will be connected by light waves through fiber-optic cables...
Zobel disqualified herself last month during the pre-trial stage of the Gillette case because she and Mockler both sit on the University's governing boards. She said at the time that she wished to avoid the appearance of impropriety, but that she didn't doubt her ability to come to an impartial decision in the case...
Coles does not consider the possibility that the reason some may oppose school prayer springs not from doubt, but instead from faith in a different, less popular God than Jesus. And one wonders why in this instance the dissenter's very loneliness does not inspire compassion rather than contemn from Coles...
...increased Japanese aid to nations that he termed vital to "our collective security." Carlucci named * the Philippines as one such country and added Turkey, Portugal, Pakistan and Afghanistan to the list. The appalled Japanese disavowed any ties between aid to the Philippines and American interests. Filipinos, however, scarcely doubt that recent Japanese donations have been partly aimed at inducing Manila to renew the leases on U.S. bases on favorable terms...
Some analysts doubt that the expected 40-year buildup in the Social Security fund will come to pass. Ben Wattenberg, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, predicts that within the next decade, soaring health- care costs could overwhelm the Government's Medicare fund, which is partly financed by the same payroll taxes that go for Social Security. If that happens, he says, Congress might keep Medicare going with money from the retirement fund. "And when that money has paid for Medicare, who will finance the retirements of the baby-boom generation?" he asks. Welcome to the budget debates...