Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...name did in fact cause the Afro appointment to fall through, it is easy to see why the bureaucrat would think that revealing publicly the discussions of the search committee "was a very bad thing." Similarly, if Bok's advisors are afraid to speak frankly because they suspect their advice will be open to public perusal, it is understandable why the bureaucrat would not want committee reports to become public information...
...North Pole have shifted south, changing weather patterns throughout the world. Part of India's monsoon rains are now dropping uselessly into the ocean. In the past six years, the Sahara has expanded 100 miles southward in some places. Scientists are baffled by the phenomenon, but some suspect it may be caused by sun spots or increased carbon dioxide and dust in the atmosphere, or a combination of both...
...disinfectant and insect sprays. It is also the principal ingredient of polyvinyl chlorides, the plastics that go into a host of familiar products including food wrappers and containers, suitcases, detergent bottles and garbage bags. No one questions vinyl chloride's utility, but a growing number of doctors now suspect its safety. Increasing evidence links vinyl chloride to a crippling bone disease and a rare but invariably fatal form of cancer...
...major hospital in Los Angeles found only one case in 52,000 autopsies. The discovery of a dozen closely linked cases thus constitutes a sort of mini epidemic of the disease. Since such cancers may not develop for at least 15 years after initial exposure, environmental health researchers suspect that more cases will be uncovered. Says J. William Lloyd, of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH): "I would suspect that this is going to be the occupational disease of the century...
...there are reasons to suspect the success of indexing, even in Brazil. For one thing, a 39% inflation rate is scarcely anything to celebrate. For another, a large part of the credit for containing inflation in Brazil must go not to indexing but to the country's stern wage-price controls. Strikes are banned, what unions exist are kept weak, and yearly wage increases are held below productivity gains. The price index is also blatantly manipulated. It is heavily weighted to living costs prevailing in the state of Guanabara (where Rio de Janeiro is located), where prices trail those...