Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terms of the 1693 agreement are suspect -- treaties made by white men on behalf of Indians somehow never work to the advantage of Indians. But Harvard's main concern should not be the stipulations of the 1693 pact. Even if the University has not violated the letter of the law, it should abide by the spirit of the agreement...
...Lear. When a lawyer advises a client to give part of his property to his children, the lawyer needs to temper his knowledge of the tax advantages of such a transfer with knowledge of how children behave towards parents from whom they have nothing more to expect materially. I suspect that a reading of Dickens' Bleak House will teach a lawyer more about the pitfalls of complicated trusts than an advanced seminar on the subject, because Bleak House deals with the inter-action of people with the law, rather than a sterile analysis of the law itself...
Independent marketers, who have captured 22% of the retail gasoline trade, suspect that major oil companies have contrived the shortage to force them out of business, drive up prices, and silence environmental critics. They note bitterly that despite the gas shortages last week the nation's refineries worked at only 88.7% of capacity, the lowest level since last November...
Berrigan, speaking before 500 people at the college's 27th annual Candlemas Lecture, said, "These institutions are suspect, but there is no way of doing away with them if the society in which they exist isn't changed...
...very least, under crossexamination. That wisdom has been variously called liberalism, rationalism, scientism: concepts certainly not identical but related. But now man's confidence in his power to control his world is at a low ebb. Technology is seen as a dangerous ally, and progress is suspect. Even the evolutionists share this unease; their hope lies not in man as he is but in some mutant superman...