Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sacrifice. Rather, we become restless, feel dissatisfied with someone or something "out there," and immediately undertake yet another search: so-and-so's new theory; a school that is radically different; or, in another direction, a school that won't give in to recent and suspect innovations. The men and women who settled this country in the 17th century and fought for its independence in the 18th century hoped that if they held themselves to account, worked hard and demanded much of their children, salvation would eventually come and, too, be anticipated by signs here on earth...
...kept mum on sex rock. In 1971, when there were complaints about such suspect drug songs as White Rabbit, Puff the Magic Dragon "and One Toke Over the Line, the FCC drew up guidelines on the airing of dope lyrics. The agency is impotent about sex, however. Explains Jason Shrinsky, the lawyer who represents 200 radio stations before the FCC: "Sex is so subjective. The FCC doesn't know what standard...
Ever since James R. Hoffa disappeared on July 30, a prime suspect in the case has been Anthony ("Tony Pro") Provenzano, 58, onetime head of Teamster Local 560 in Union City, N.J., who still controls that fief while living in Hallandale, Fla. Provenzano and Hoffa, the domineering president of the Teamsters from 1957 to 1971, were once good friends but became bitter enemies when they were imprisoned together in Lewisburg, Pa., Provenzano for extortion and Hoffa for jury tampering, fraud and conspiracy. Tony Pro wanted Hoffa to use his influence to reinstate the pension that Provenzano had lost when...
...Many of our earlier Presidents (starting with George Washington) had some entrepreneurial experience, but the last out-and-out businessman who ran was Wendell Willkie in 1940. Says John T. Connor, chairman of Allied Chemical Corp. and former head of Merck & Co.: "Anyone with previous business experience becomes immediately suspect. Certain segments think that he can't make a decision in the public interest...
Ready for Jogging. Because these drugs decrease the body's resistance, the patient becomes highly susceptible to infection. The Stanford group has a remedy for that too. "We throw a whole array of antibiotics at the patient as soon as we suspect something," says Dr. Sharon Hunt, a member of the postoperative care team. "Once we have ascertained the exact nature of the infection, we withdraw those that are not needed...