Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hand were the horrors of slavery and the middle passage, while on the other hand were the possibilities of redemption and affirmation of the humanistic ideal of man which the Christian religion promised, and which ob-jectively spoke of the noblest ideals of man. It was, I suspect, the attempt to bring forth a synthesis of these two antagonistic poles that became the modus operandiof the literature...
While all this was going on, a third suspect in the theft, Thomas DeSimone, 32, was reported missing by his wife. DeSimone has a record of cargo thefts and had just served time for a truck hijacking. The FBI believes he was murdered in a dispute among the thieves over distribution of the Lufthansa loot. New York police are not so sure he is dead. Also thought to be a victim of the gang's dissension was Steven Edwards, 31, an ex-convict whose bullet-riddled body was found in his New York apartment...
When Steve Rosston '81, with Artson's outspoken support, ran unopposed for vice president a few minutes later, the 60 club members assembled in Science Center B began to suspect the presence of a slate. "It definitely looked incestuous, but it wasn't planned that way at all," Artson said later. Suddenly, what had started as a quiet, almost boring election meeting exploded into a series of shouting matches, with members telling stories of secret meetings, hidden slates, and "freshman conspiracies...
...Skeptics suspect that those predictions may be too euphoric. Peking has very little interest in importing consumer goods; those Cokes will be mainly for tourists...
China is avid to buy foreign technology, but how much it will be able to pay for is inscrutable. The still poor country has little to sell abroad, and it is most uncertain what sums it can borrow, from whom and on what terms. Finally, veteran China traders suspect that in many cases what now appear to be three sales will turn out to be only one, for which the Chinese have invited three companies, unknown to each other, to negotiate and submit what amount to competing bids-a strategy not unknown in the West...