Word: suspected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even the masculine hormones became suspect. Femininity was the garden of life, masculinity the landscape of death. Perhaps in a subliminal way, the long hair and beads that protesting men wore in the '60s were intended to detoxify them, to take the curse off their masculinity...
...Soviets have yet to produce the Agat in large quantities, and its quality is still suspect. Leo Bores, an eye surgeon and computer buff from Scottsdale, Ariz., tried out the Agat on a visit to the Soviet Union and wrote about his findings in last November's Byte magazine. Bores, who facetiously dubbed Agat the Yabloko (Russian for apple), discovered that the Soviet machine performs some tasks 30% slower than an Apple. The Soviets would not be able to export Agat to the West, he says, "even if they gave it away." Stephen Bryen, a top Defense Department expert...
...Fifth Amendment requires a grand jury indictment before someone can be prosecuted for a major federal offense, and 19 states have similar rules for felonies. A grand jury, called by the prosecutor and made up of up to 23 randomly selected citizens, decides by a majority vote whether a suspect ought to stand trial. The prosecutor gathers and presents all evidence heard by the jury. In most states defense lawyers are not allowed into the deliberations. Grand jury witnesses may be prosecuted for any crime they may mention in testimony unless they are granted immunity, a rule that proved particularly...
...circumscribed. The U.S. Supreme Court last week limited the right of police to use deadly force against fleeing criminals. In an exception to its recent law-and-order decisions, the court ruled that a Tennessee statute allowing police to "use all the necessary means to effect the arrest" of suspected felons violated the Constitution's Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable seizure. The case involved an unarmed 15-year-old boy who was shot and killed by Memphis police as he climbed over a backyard fence. "It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape," wrote Justice...
...Experts suspect that the designer fentanyls are the work of a single evil genius (who must now be very wealthy; some $2 million worth of drugs can be produced from $200 worth of chemicals). Cooper says that the lab work is so sophisticated that "I just don't think more than one person could be doing...