Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...failures caused concern among administrators, Meyer added. "We were worried about the personal hardship of the minority students who failed, and also that the failures might cast suspicion on the qualifications of all minority students...
...short shrift given dissent reinforces one's suspicion that data was matched to a preconceived analysis. This "study" of female sexuality devotes only about a dozen pages to women who are able to orgasm during intercourse and who do enjoy satisfactory heterosexual relationships. Even though Hite was not primarily interested in examining contentment, this imbalance unfortunately abets those aiming to detract from the report's overall accuracy...
When they go out-if they go out -they listen anxiously for the sound of footsteps hurrying near, and they eye every approaching stranger with suspicion. As they walk, some may clutch a police whistle in their hands. More often, especially after the sun sets, they stay at home, their world reduced to the confines of apartments that they turn into fortresses with locks and bars on every window and door. They are the elderly who live in the slums of the nation's major cities. Many are poor. White or black, they share a common fear-that they...
...senior officials to New York to unveil, with maximum publicity, a 26-page, 70-item "Voluntary Disclosure Code," under which the bank proposes to make available information that goes far beyond what banks are compelled by law to reveal. The disclosures, say bank officials, should help to dispel public suspicion of business and keep BankAmerica's executives toeing the mark. Intones a preamble to the code: "What better inhibitor to misconduct or ineptness than the certain knowledge that one's actions will become known...
Though not surprising, it would be sad if Harvard continued to mistake Brown-Beasley's peculiar manner--his profuse letter-writing, his occasional self-righteousness and his inordinate suspicion--as reasons to treat his charges lightly. On procedural grounds Brown-Beasley has a strong case against Harvard, and beyond this there remain the serious substantive allegations he has made about the operation of the Office of Fiscal Services and, more generally, the application of computers at Harvard. Apples, oranges and bananas aside, there's more to the Brown-Beasley controversy than fruit cocktai