Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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fter the initial screening, 101 cadets were under deep suspicion. They were next called before boards composed of twelve Honor Committee cadets for further examination...
...Guyana government has shifted markedly to the left, most visibly in cultivating relations with Jagan's idol, Cuban Premier Fidel Castro. Washington, which lavished millions on Guyana in development projects to encourage Burnham's election in 1964, is upset. So are neighboring Venezuela and Brazil. Outsiders' suspicion has provoked a kind of fortress mentality on the part of Burnham, who optimistically called Jagan's return to Parliament "a warning to our enemies that we are a united people...
With the possible exception of the CIA, no United States invention has stirred more emotion, suspicion and criticism round the world than the modern multinational corporation. Many of the complaints are unjustified and highly exaggerated. Nonetheless, there have been enough genuine episodes of corporate misbehavior to spur demands for bringing the companies under stricter control...
...Quotas, like such discrimination, depart from this criterion, and thus are unfair to everyone--unfair to consumers and employers who lose the benefit of superior service, unfair to fellow workers who must rely on less skilled help in their jobs, unfair to most minority group members who suffer the suspicion that they did not earn their positions, and unfair to those with the best qualifications who may lose opportunities that should have been theirs...
...acquired during a break-in at Allen Drury's apartment. But in fact Spiro Agnew writes better-if, as he insists, "I have unequivocally written all the novel myself." He has even offered $25,000 to New York Post Columnist Harriet Van Home if she can prove her suspicion that he did not write the book. In any event, the novel's action-which includes brutal multiple murders and an anticlimactic missile crisis-has less energy than the rancorous opinions that stream from the mouths of the characters. Many of these views are clearly Agnew...