Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...despite ominous trends, recent events suggest that Americans have been convinced that preparing for war simply costs too much...
...President's program needed more time to work. This view became the prism through which he interpreted the night's returns. Other than a few individual disappointments ("Gosh darn it," he muttered when Nebraska Governor Charles Thone lost), Reagan was satisfied with the results. "There was nothing to suggest a need to change the basic course," said Counsellor Edwin Meese, expressing Reagan's sentiments...
Optimists among political experts suggest that the spending may be reaching a natural limit, at which point it becomes useless or even backfires on the candidates. Unhappily, the evidence does not quite bear out their theory. It is true that several of the very biggest spenders lost. Among them: Republicans William Clements and Lewis Lehrman, who shelled out around $12.5 million each on the Texas and New York gubernatorial races; Democrat Mark Dayton, a department-store heir who laid out $6.9 million in an attempt to become a U.S. Senator from Minnesota, and Democrat Adam Levin, 33, a lawyer...
There is little evidence, however, to suggest that the court system is more effective in dealing with status offenders. Recently mediation has represented an increasingly popular alternative to in-court settlement of disputes in many areas. At the Harvard Law School, Professor Frank Sander offers a course which trains student in dispute resolution techniques and then placed them in actual mediation programs...
...last fight after which his mother stood outside in the cold for two hours. "I wanted to make them stop," he begins, "I wanted to go outside and get her, but I couldn't reach the door knob." When an adolescent's earliest memory and Dillion's sympathetic demeanor suggest such despair and evoke such pathos, it becomes difficult to accept his outward show of confidence...