Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent statement by the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association said: "In America, which is in a truly deep recession, one question is how will we be able to continue to support the principle of free trade?" Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Automobile Workers, is trying to document a suspicion that the Rabbit, at a U.S. sticker price of $2,999, is being sold below cost, which would be grounds for a "dumping" complaint to the Treasury Depart ment. Robert Link, a Datsun executive, says nervously that "we don't really want to sell less, but we sure wish Detroit...
...Harvard's special relationship with Roxbury could not be without suspicion on the community's side. Universities--Harvard included--have often looked on ghetto schools as places to do studies on, but not to aid on the schools' own terms...
...investigation widened, David Smith, editor of the Independent Florida Alligator, the student paper, demanded open hearings to protect the innocent students: "What of next June's graduates, who will carry through life a business degree whose mere date taints their character with suspicion?" Smith joined a law student and the editor of the Gainesville Sun in filing suit against the university under the state's Sunshine Law, which requires public agencies to hold open meetings when they take official action. Circuit Court Judge Robert Green Jr. then issued a preliminary injunction to stop the student honor court from...
...plain suspicion that someone in the immediate vicinity immensely, discreetly cares...
Leaders of young nations often feel that their prestige is determined by the number of shiny new weapons that rumble past the reviewing stand during a military parade. Moreover, disputed borders and the suspicion of seemingly hostile neighbors frequently lead to intense local arms races. This has been the case with India and Pakistan, Mali and Upper Volta, and Peru, Bolivia and Chile...