NYSE Euronext executives have privately expressed doubt about that, pointing to statements by Moody's and Standard & Poor's threatening to downgrade Nasdaq's rating if a deal were to take place.
The group disagreed on the key issue of whether to send more troops to Iraq, with retired Gen. John M. Keane arguing that several thousand additional soldiers could be used to improve security in Baghdad, and others expressing doubt about that proposal, according to sources at the meeting.
But other experts have expressed doubts about that and periodically suggested that other diseases were responsible.
Justice Elena Kagan expressed doubts about that approach.
Back at home, I'm reminded that official figures have estimated initial numbers at around 13,000, though government ministers have expressed doubts about that number.
By late morning, as the lawyers struggled to get past the day's first witness, even he was expressing doubts about that goal.
Some city officials and budget monitors expressed doubts about that figure, which is based on a number of assumptions that may not come to pass, but they expressed relief nonetheless that the state budget would not seriously cut their aid.
Alistair Darling, who heads the Better Together campaign, has expressed doubts about that possibility, however, saying that the arrangement wouldn't make sense if the countries were pulling apart politically.
Schools in Portland, Oregon, have voted to abandon textbooks that "express doubt about the severity of the climate crisis or its root in human activities".
The respondents thought that they could express doubts about the improvement work, and that no one would be punished if they did not achieve the goals.
The Energy Department acquiesced to that, but even some Democrats have expressed doubts about whether that was a good idea.
