Word: suspected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presidential incarnation, George Bush was the Democrats' juiciest target: the perennial preppy, the suspect wimp, the Vice President who was always off at a ball game or a funeral when weighty affairs of state were being decided. But after eight months in the Oval Office, Bush tops even Ronald Reagan in popularity (70% approval), a reversal of fortune that has plunged the out party into another of its periodic identity crises. Last week, in an orgy of finger pointing, party stalwarts from New York Governor Mario Cuomo to national chairman Ron Brown asked, in effect, Where are the Democrats...
Some mechanical problems are hard to spot in even the most thorough of inspections. Case in point: experts suspect that microscopic cracks on a 300- lb. revolving disk caused the tail engine on a United Airlines DC-10 to blow apart last July. The mishap crippled the jet's hydraulic steering system, killing 112 people when the plane crash-landed in Sioux City, Iowa. (McDonnell Douglas said last week that it would modify its DC-10s to ensure safe landings even if all hydraulic systems failed...
...same imaginative spirit animates his pursuit of a serial killer who is stalking womanizers (nice reversal of expectations there). Keller and his partner (John Goodman) place ads in the personal columns of an alternative newspaper and start dating the respondents. Needless to say, the likeliest suspect (Ellen Barkin) is also the best bet to comfort our hero...
...bills mount, many parents suspect that institutions are kicking up their fees at will, knowing that families will pay almost anything to give their child the cachet of a Harvard or Yale degree. "It's Chivas Regal pricing," says Kalman Chany, president of Campus Consultants Inc., a Manhattan-based financial-aid consulting firm. "The most selective schools can afford to charge what they want because they've got lines out the door of people who want to go there...
...fantasize that something from outer space is responsible can be excluded," he insists. "What does cause these circles is better than fiction." But with or without government research funding, it may be a while before students of the phantasmagoria come up with a totally convincing explanation. Indeed, some suspect that researchers and the locals may enjoy their novel oddity so much that another ring is more interesting than a conclusive answer...