Word: probings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frail hope was that Illinois voters, in a sporting mood, would choose to prolong the contest by propping up a fellow Midwesterner. Another thin reed: the possibility that indictments flowing from the Iran-contra probe would somehow slow Bush. Dole was all the more frustrated by his conviction, shared by more disinterested pols, that Bush was winning the nomination for the wrong reasons, that beneath the new veneer of strength old weaknesses festered, waiting to undermine Republican prospects in the fall. Nonetheless, Bush had finally achieved real political momentum, more substantial than his preppie and premature pronouncement in 1980 that...
Vermont and Bowling Green have not met this year, so both will seek to probe the other's strengths and weaknesses in the opening minutes...
...pushing the Democrats' trade bill or trying to get federal help for Texas banks and savings and loans (including one in which he has an interest) or acting as a middleman for the U.S. and Canada on bilateral trade, the techniques are the same: press flesh, build relationships, probe for strengths and weaknesses. If he can't shake your hand, he'll give you a call. Strauss spends hours a day on the phone, staying in touch with his network of friends, his cello-like Texas drawl coming through as either a low, world- weary growl or a tone much...
...February, however, an explosive book called Stalker was published. It was written by now retired Deputy Chief Constable John Stalker of the Greater Manchester police force, who was placed in charge of the R.U.C. probe in 1984 but dismissed two years later. In his book, Stalker implies that he was ousted for implicating senior R.U.C. officers, that he found evidence of a "police inclination, if not policy, to shoot suspects dead without warning, rather than arrest them," and that at least eleven policemen were involved in a conspiracy to pervert justice...
Prison authorities are focusing their probe on an embezzler serving a 30- year term. The suspect, a clerk in the prison-industries program, has his own computer terminal. He is also suspected of participating in a scheme to doctor $50,000 worth of money orders...