Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Apparently placed in the boxes last July, the bombs were all equipped with a seven-month fuse-a device sophisticated enough to persuade the police that some radicals have upgraded their skills; they suspect that the bombs were the work of the Weatherman...
...more physically wrenching than any of the film's splashy shootings. When the detectives have all the information they can get, Doyle exacts a last, unnecessary ounce of submission by forcing him to confess to nonsense accusations by the threat of more beating. The nonsense-accusation sequence is a suspect-baiting device Friedkin picked up from Detective Eddie Egan, the cop on whom Doyle's character is based, who plays the narcotics division chief to Russo and Doyle (Gene Hackman) in Connection and who is soon to star in a film vehicle called Fuzz. The incident goes under the generic...
...still working there. There were other issues that were much more important. But in the contacts we had with him and with his senior staff during the campaign, he certainly gave us the impression of very different views about Vietnam than those that emerged later. And I suspect that neither of us would have worked for him to the degree that we did, or at all, if we had been able to anticipate the way the war was going...
CAPITAL SPENDING by business for new factories and machines will jump by 9% or 11%. That might seem like too much of a good thing because official statistics show that about 25% of U.S. industrial capacity was idle all through last year. But these statistics are suspect because of difficulties in measuring; the real use of available capacity was probably more than 80%. Further, many of the nation's plants and machines are old and inefficient, partly because real capital spending has been flat for the past five years. But the 7% investment tax credit, the rise in demand...
However, there is a deeper implication expressed in such suspicions. Those who raise these objections to student unions apparently expect that they, themselves, would not stop a takeover by opportunists. Either they suspect their own unwillingness or inability to make the effort, or they believe that not enough individuals will feel as strongly as they to make a united and effective stand. No one believes he or she will take on the burden, and, consequently, no one believes anyone else will shoulder it either...