Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cost $7 billion a year, extra physicians' charges that total $2.6 billion, eyeglasses at $1 billion and dental costs at $2 billion." Robert Maxwell, vice president of A.A.R.P., told a Senate committee hearing earlier this month that the "Secretary's proposal . . . is a minimal one . . . It is misleading to suggest that the Bowen plan would provide older Americans with protection against catastrophic health-care costs...
...revelations of secret arms deals with Iran and the consequent diversion of profits from those sales to aid the contra rebels in Nicaragua are more than just the story of some overzealous actions by a gung-ho cowboy. They suggest an Administration's disdain for the often cumbersome mechanics of democracy and a simple, breathtaking willingness to preach one thing in public and do another in private...
...charges of illegal influence peddling, former White House Aide Michael Deaver seemed to be on the rebound. Deaver recently emerged from self-imposed obscurity to advise Ronald Reagan on the Iran-contra crisis. Moreover, an investigation of Deaver's affairs has dragged on for seven months, prompting allies to suggest that Special Prosecutor Whitney North Seymour Jr. had no case against him. Last week, however, a federal court broadened Seymour's authority: several Deaver associates could soon face charges of perjury and obstructing justice, and Deaver might be indicted for lying to a House subcommittee...
...Some suggest that North may have done more than just rally the right to the contra camp. The Lowell (Mass.) Sun charged last week that $5 million from the sales of U.S. arms to Iran, which North had helped engineer, had been funneled to right-wing groups that included the relatively unknown National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty. The money, said the Sun, was used "to boost conservative candidates in the U.S. and to oppose critics of the Reagan Administration's Central American policy." No other news organization has confirmed the story, which the endowment's director, Carl ("Spitz...
...parliamentary and completed judicial proceedings. Even critical comments on security matters by M.P.s speaking outside the halls of Parliament may now be forbidden. In a blatantly Orwellian rule, publications are even prohibited from printing any blank space within a story, lest such a deletion of text or photograph suggest that the article had been censored...