Word: suspicion
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Many Floridians seem willing to pay for better services, but they share a widespread suspicion that the government is not sufficiently frugal. In a recent study by Florida TaxWatch, a nonprofit taxpayers group based in Tallahassee, the average respondent believed the government wastes a third of every dollar it spends. Says Reed Gidez, 28, who moved to Tampa from New Jersey a year ago: "I would be willing to pay more taxes if state leaders could convince me that they were actually going to do something with the money." For the leaders of the fourth largest state in the nation...
Israeli soldiers and border police can enter Arab homes without a warrant. Palestinians are routinely stopped and required to show identification papers. Arabs can be detained for up to six months without trial. Their houses can be sealed or demolished on suspicion that a member of the family is engaged in "terrorist" activity. They can be arrested for dozens of offenses that do not exist in Israel, including flying the Palestinian flag, reading "subversive" literature or holding a press conference without permission...
Kingpin Caro Quintero, who is reportedly worth $500 million, came under suspicion immediately after Camarena's disappearance. Yet just two days later the federal police comandante in charge of the investigation, Armando Pavon Reyes, allowed the gangster to leave Guadalajara by private plane in the full view of three DEA agents. Records obtained by the DEA indicate that Pavon Reyes made a call from the hangar phone at Guadalajara to the office of Manuel Ibarra, then head of the federal police. Though the U.S. has no record of the conversation, DEA officials suspect that Ibarra was being asked to approve...
...roughest year afflicted not only the First Family but also several friends and followers. It was a rough year for Reagan's onetime close aide Michael Deaver, who was convicted of perjury; a rough year for Attorney General Edwin Meese, under official investigation on suspicion of corruption; a rough year for Federal Judge Robert Bork, nominated to the Supreme Court but humiliatingly rejected by the Senate. Well, time passes. Next year at this time, Ronald Reagan can look forward to packing his bags and heading westward into the sunset, just as he and his fellow heroes used...
Finding the suspect gene took 18 months of painstaking analysis. It was, Page says, "like seeing a brick wall and piecing it together brick by brick." After pinpointing the TDF gene, Page used computer analysis to hypothesize how it works. The suspicion is that TDF triggers the production of a protein that signals other genes to induce maleness...