Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cost of Existence In an era when Government pronouncements are often suspect, it is refreshing when the official word comes out straight, however depressing. The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, after studying the tariff on existence in the New York City area, reported that it now costs $11,236 a year for a family of four to maintain a "moderate" standard of living there...
...SENIORS, of course, the attitude of graduate and professional schools has been the biggest question about the pass/fail arrangement. One senior at Brown was told by two law school interviewers that they would suspect any student who reported his grades as "satisfactory" of trying to disguise his performance. An assistant professor here, who is a member of the admissions committee at the Kennedy School of Government, told a reporter last week that he doubted he could "take a chance" on an applicant who reported no grades "even if he had the soundest recommendations...
...history they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves." History becomes a nightmare for us, because we cannot know in advance whether the detours we think we must take may not become dead-ends, whether the circumstances may not, in the end, defeat us: and because we suspect that the cost of defeat will be too high. Terrorizing others is one response to the anxiety of trying to make history- their terror of you becomes evidence of your control over the future. That the enormous means of terror in the possession of Hitler and Stalin could not make...
...view, then it seems to me we ought to reschedule the hearing, go back to the Committee with the whole issue of recordings before them, and get a carefully worked out procedure rather than improvising something here. Anything we worked out here would be improvised, and I suspect that both parties would at some point come to regret it, because it wouldn't take into account everyone's interests. My proposal is that we reschedule the hearings for a mutually convenient time that can be found and in the interim we get instructions from the full Committee...
...marked his arrival. In the family's routine he left "a very small blank-precisely owl-shaped." Service's very small book is not precisely owl-shaped, but it serves most excellently to fill a blank in an attentive reader's life that hardly anyone would suspect was there...