Word: suspected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Quantity is no-clear indicator: while one professor churns out a stream of papers, another may be hidden in a laboratory quietly curing cancer. As for quality, that is something only an academic's colleagues can judge, not his administrative superiors. But even peer judgments are imperfect in academia, suspect as they usually are to internecine methodological disputes...
While the bill itself seemed justified, the timing was suspect. The legislation passed the House late last spring, but as the general election approached, the senators dragged their feet. Yet in their first meeting after the election, they took less than an hour to pass the measure...
...encountered yet another daunting obstacle: the fanatical intransigence of Roberto d'Aubuisson's ARENA party. Although D'Aubuisson indicated only a month ago that he accepted the prospect of bringing the rebellious left back into the country's political fold by 1984, some observers suspect that he has lost control of the more extreme members of his party. Says a U.S. official: "Every time D'Aubuisson does something responsible, the crazies around him get upset...
...heroes in Aksyonov's books were teen-age runaways who craved rokmuzyka, wore Keds and dzhinsy and talked a nonstop street slang larded with Americanisms, just like real-life Russians. Predictably, Aksyonov's very popularity with the young made him suspect to the Soviet literary Establishment. Yet he remained a member of the Union of Soviet Writers for 18 years...
Deng and his comrades are eager to deny that they face any significant opposition. Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang told one recent visitor that dissidents "do not number more than 200,000, and they have now been scattered all over the country." But Western experts suspect that the problem is more serious. Part of the reason that the leaders are publicly browbeating the U.S. over Taiwan is to prove their patriotism to party colleagues and to fend off the charge that they have let the U.S. push China around...