But then he turned skeptical, largely because of the for-profit structure of the organization.
Ramaswamy Iyer, India's water resources secretary in the 1980s, was once a big supporter of dams, but toward the end of his life he turned skeptical.
As Hispanic and Asian voters continue to move up the income scale, for example, more of them may turn skeptical about Democratic calls to raise taxes on the affluent.
We have become skeptical of our own macroeconomic authorities and abilities, and that, in turn, makes successful policy harder to pull off.
But the investors have turned increasingly skeptical of companies that rely heavily on long-term contracts, and some analysts and investors fear that the long-term contracts Dynegy is banking on may never bring the revenue the company has forecast.
During the campaign, he repeatedly cited his early opposition to the Iraq war, but in Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Gates, he tapped two figures who supported the 2003 invasion before turning more skeptical of the war.
Dr. Clark, in turn, is skeptical of "ivory tower" addiction programs with rigid rules and of doctors who, in his view, collude with the pharmaceutical industry.
He preserved the Romantic subjectivity of a movement that, as American culture turned witheringly skeptical, lost all conviction.
For two years, as Allison continued his experiments on mice, he approached pharmaceutical and biotech companies for help in developing the treatment for patients, but he was repeatedly turned away: "People were skeptical of immunology and immune therapy.
In the spirit of modern political fact-checking contrariness — and owing a bit to the creeping sadness that there is no more baseball until spring — we turn a skeptical eye to some of the insta-myths from this Series that we Red Sox fans will be telling our descendants for years to come.
