Word: skepticism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...skeptic, unable to shake the unsettled feeling of constantly being on the move, might say that neither is truly home. It’s strange sometimes to realize that no matter which bed I’m sleeping in at the end of the day, I’ll be in another city soon...
Talk to a Bush supporter, and you hear giddy things. Talk to a Bush skeptic, and you hear the end of human life as we know it. In Washington last week, almost all the scenarios were extreme. "If you tear up all the rules and toss them in the air," said Ashton Carter, a Defense official in the Clinton Administration, now agonizing at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, "the results can be really good or really bad--but they're definitely going to be really different...
...Talk to a Bush supporter, and you hear giddy things. Talk to a Bush skeptic, and you hear the end of human life as we know it. In Washington last week, almost all the scenarios were extreme. "If you tear up all the rules and toss them in the air," said Ashton Carter, a Defense official in the Clinton Administration, now agonizing at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, "the results can be really good or really bad - but they're definitely going to be really different...
Parker described himself as a skeptic of suggestions that restricted use of torture for information-gaining purposes would lead to greater injustices...
...appeared the deck was stacked against MacDonald as she took her position on the rug at center ice and awkwardly grasped an oversized hockey stick. Any skeptic had their doubts confirmed when her first of three shots sailed wide left...