Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have been. So much has happened in the past nine months that it is almost forgotten that Richard Nixon's first choice to succeed Spiro Agnew as his Vice President was not Gerald Ford but Connally. To contemplate the indictment of the Vice President, or even merely the suspicion of charges aired, in the same week that articles of impeachment were voted against the President is a scenario that almost shatters the mind. By the best accounts, Melvin Laird played a key role in persuading Nixon that Connally was too recently a Republican convert and too ambitious...
...vulnerable. Going through the more than 50 pages of maps and graphs in the interim report, it is apparent that Harvard faces serious problems with many of its antiquated utility systems, particularly sewage, steam and water lines. By earmarking certain areas for certain potentials Harvard is bound to arouse suspicion and ire; in outlining specific altternatives toes are sure to be stepped on and many individual domains interfered with...
...There is a kind of administrative sclerosis around the world that breeds mass suspicion and distrust. Leadership casualties result...
Less Capital. But there is also some suspicion that middlemen, especially grocery chains, have been adding un-warrantedly to their profits. Last week Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz set a panel of experts to studying why retail meat prices remain high despite drops at the farm level, and the Federal Trade Commission launched a study to determine how the size and market share of major store chains affect competition and prices. Supermarket chiefs insist their profits are still low. The chains are earning only 9? profit on each $10 of sales, v. 7? last year. "Food retailers of this country...
...much time throwing out old ideas without replacing them adequately. This situation reflects the influence of positivism, which instead of being maintained as a healthy questioning spirit designed to eliminate foggy metaphysics, has too often been transformed into a worship of the tangible and measurable, and an inordinate suspicion of whatever requires some imagination to be grasped. Despite the fact that many philosophers recognize this distortion, we are still left with a legacy of rashly discarded philosophies and weakly contrived replacements; and our hasty, materialistic, opportunistic way of life provides slight impetus indeed for returning to more solid ground...