Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Velsicol Corporation began production in 1976 of another pesticide, EPN, which scientists suspect is twice as toxic as Phosvel. EPN and Phosvel have the same chemical base. The EPA has recommended the EPN be banned from the United States. At present, several major companies manufacture EPN, the largest being DuPont Chemical Company...
...answers to these complex questions that the curriculum report provides exude a confidence that makes them immediately suspect. The rigidity of the guidelines for the proposed core courses suggests that the Harvard Faculty feels it has a monopoly on the ability to understand the real meaning of the vague concept of education...
...Payments from the Airlie Foundation, a Virginia research organization and conference center. Investigators suspect that Flood received approximately $59,000 from the foundation and its director, Dr. Murdock Head, while Elko and former Louisiana Representative Otto Passman shared an additional $28,000. Between 1971 and 1977 Airlie got contracts worth more than $18 million from the State Department's Agency for International Development for educational films and other projects. Passman, Flood and Head deny any improprieties. Yet Elko's story is filled with specifics. TIME has learned that he claims Head asked him to invite Passman to dinner...
...then came a period during which the big daddy of underground newspapers returned to its normal self. Recently, however, along with a new format that is less interesting than the old news on the cover, arts on the back page set-up, the Voice has run some highly suspect cover stories. Three weeks ago, for example, there was a story called "Asexuality: Nobody's Doing It," and last week there was a long piece about the Boston sex scandal, an interesting, if somewhat lurid story. Of course, the story happened three months ago--and in Boston, not New York...
...appointee of an opposing political party was nothing new--political patronage has existed and been practiced by successive administrations for many years. But his embarassment over playing the established rules of the game led to a cover-up that transformed the local case into a national headliner. He became suspect to the charge of possible collusion to obstruct justice. All because he lied. He had promised in the campaign to select attorneys on the basis of merit, not politics. Once in Washington, however, he found the promise too hard to keep; he owed too many favors. In Philadelphia...