Word: rumored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every so often, sniper fire from the neighboring Shi'ite Muslim slums would ring out, sending the searchers scurrying for shelter. Then, two days after the blast, came terrifying news. A rumor spread that three vehicles reportedly laden with high explosives were cruising the neighborhood. The Marines were immediately placed on "Condition One," the highest state of alert. Huge amphibious personnel carriers blocked off the roads leading to the base, while the highway curving past the airport was barricaded with boulders of concrete. Several hours later, without explanation, the alert was downgraded...
...primary, Rizzo came around and endorsed Goode. Last week Egan suggested that Goode had "cut a deal" with Rizzo, allegedly promising a high-level post at Philadelphia's gas company in exchange for Rizzo's endorsement. Egan later lamely admitted his sole source was a rumor he had heard "on the street...
...been causing other computer makers to tremble. Two weeks ago, Atari disclosed that it was delaying plans to market two advanced home computers. Many analysts attributed that postponement to fear of the PCjr. So intense have expectations grown in the face of IBM's silence that the mere rumor of an announcement can shake a competitor's stock. As recently as Sept. 28, the shares of four computer makers lost $340 million in combined total value after two Wall Street analysts predicted that the PCjr would arrive this fall...
...Every day, public bulletin boards are plastered with new execution notices, while grim truckloads of prisoners are driven back and forth to draw attention to the severity of their sentences. The campaign is said to have been directly inspired by the need to protect Deng, physically and politically. A rumor has it that an attack upon Deng's motorcade occurred in August near the seaside resort of Beidaihe. Though he was not harmed, the incident apparently prompted the crackdown...
...with the discipline rationals is that discipline will become the rights-buster that national security often is. If administrators must maintain some amorphous discipline or national security "posture" to prevent spaced out students from rioting or nuclear holocaust, then what right, what protections, exist? In this case, only a rumor and an anonymous phone call transformed a U.S. constitutional right into a Soviet style promise, redeemable only in a world of lofty words and glorifies lies...