Word: specter
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Harvard gives the SAT less consideration in the admissions process, so an SAT score raised by a prep course would probably not translate into admission. But for many schools, the SAT score is the dominant criterion for admission, and the specter of buying admission through a prep course becomes a real concern...
Particularly in the age of cocaine, all sports hold their breath over the specter of betting and its potential to devastate the integrity of players. But baseball is most sensitive to gambling. The commissioner's office was founded in 1920 in reaction to the rigged World Series the year before, when the Cincinnati Reds were the beneficiaries. First Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis, a federal judge from Illinois, ignored technical acquittals and permanently banned the eight Chicago Black Sox players involved. In 1947 A.B. ("Happy") Chandler suspended manager Leo Durocher one season merely for associating with gamblers...
...just as the specter of an East-West conflict has receded, East-East police actions may also grow harder to justify, and someday perhaps harder to execute. Hungary, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria have all followed Gorbachev's lead by announcing large cuts in defense spending. The gradual demilitarization of those societies could fuel economic reform by freeing resources for civilian industry...
Heavy drinkers have been a continuing specter in American public life. Luckily, there are no episodes in which the Republic's fate was threatened by drunkenness. Our standards have gone up, slowly the first 180 years, dramatically the past 20. Off the job or on, a political boozer is apt to be a loser. That's not to say teetotaling assures success...
...inebriated to the point that he could not operate?" interrupted Sen. Arlen Specter...