Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...headlines in the Laurel (Mississippi) Leader-Call blaring about the tug-of-war in Washington over decontrol of oil prices. President Ford's position is that oil prices need to go up so that we'll use less oil and eventually become energetically independent from imported oil. This seems suspect to my grandmother. Why, just the other day she heard him and Mr. Kissinger on the TV jawboning at the Arabs about how bad it would be for the world economy if they were to raise their prices this fall. And oil is oil to my grandmother. "I know...
...more devoted than they to her. The two cops' dogged pursuit--through what can only be termed a grim and desparate picture of urban civilization, and countless discotheques besides--nets them a grimy handful of none-too-virtuous witnesses who would just as well cast all blame on the suspect, Jimmy Johnson. A man who, it seems, has already been chewed off and spit out by this world, Johnson is ritually pronounced Guilty by his peers and shuffled off to life-long incarceration...
...decided that there was no need to put a special watch on her. From what it knew of Fromme's statements, the agency did not feel that she posed a dangerous threat to the President. Ideally, the Secret Service should be able to keep tab on every suspect. But Douglas V. Duncan, head of the Secret Service unit in Sacramento, points out, "We don't have enough agents for that kind of thing...
Early this summer Coleman incurred the censure of many academics−who charged that he used suspect statistics−when, after a new study of racial data in U.S. public schools, he announced that at least in major cities, "busing has not worked" as a means of desegregation. His reason: busing ordered by the courts often drives whites out of the schools, thus actually increasing segregation...
...there are purists who still argue that the author cheated. But if the device came as a revelation, the source should not have. Six years earlier, Christie had broken ground modestly in her first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles; the villain was the first and most obvious suspect, from whom attention had long since been diverted...