Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...television's treatment of Lance even more closely resembled those familiar scenes on local news shows where a rape or murder suspect is brought to police headquarters, ducking his way through a mob of hectoring reporters. Those nightly scenes illustrate television's show-biz fascination with action, drama and sadism...
Billy, on the other hand, has pursued his lucrative celebrity with such up-front good ole boy's cupidity that his ventures seem quite innocent-especially after Watergate. Critics quick to seize upon any hinted impropriety around a President have laughed off Billy. No one has to suspect Billy of anything -he simply takes a certified check, in advance, then goes out behind the microphone, usually clutching a cold one, and exhales his ineffable magic: one-liners, snorts ("hee-unh, hee-unh"), the buffooneries of a quick-witted redneck (self-advertised). "I ain't the Carter that...
Blumenthal's recommendation is a pseudo-Solomonic decision that Treasury people estimate would barely raise $100 million in tax revenue. That is a piddling amount on the scale of Government finance and an indication that nowhere near the numbers of executives Carter seems to suspect are using expense accounts to live it up at taxpayers' expense...
...abortion debate can claim to have positive knowledge of whether or not abortion constitutes the taking of a life. Yet a real biological possibility exists that this is the case. Given this possibility, the government must accord the fetus the same rights it grants the average criminal suspect: the assumption that it is innocent, until proven guilty, of being an "expendable" member of society. Until proof exists to the contrary, any "moral justification" for abortion simply does not exist...
Larry Parnell, public information officer for the Department of Corrections, said last night, a suspect has been identified and segregated from other prisoners. Since he has not been charged, his name has not been released...