Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...individual and one willing to take student concerns into account before making hard and fast policy. Without question, Fox has moved closer to that ideal in the two years since the council has been around. But in general, people who know him say John Fox engenders a sense of suspicion more than assurance, making him someone hard to approach and his office one unreasonably detached in understanding and reality from those who should feel most comfortable there: all members of the College community, House Masters and undergraduates in particular...
...violence had confirmed every suspicion non New Yorkers held about New York as Sin City, the public reaction thoroughly dispelled the accompanying image of New York as Liberal Haven. New York Gov. Mario M. Cyomo and New York City Mayor Edward I. Koch left compelled to warn the citizenry that the state and city administrations by no means condoned taking the law into one's own hands. The citizenry appeared to take exception to this, giving Goetz a warm welcome and offers of financial assistance when he was extradited from New Hampshire, where he had surrendered to police several days...
...Nationalist gangsters who had reportedly confessed that they helped carry out the crime said that Colonel Chen Hu-men, a deputy department director in the intelligence bureau of the Ministry of National Defense, was aware of the plot. The colonel was arrested last week, while other Nationalist officials under suspicion were being questioned...
...apparent attempt to attract younger viewers, a lot of recent dancing has been included: break-dancing, Michael Jackson's "Beat It" video, material from Saturday Night Fever and Flashdance. A wicked suspicion lingers, however, that this material was included in the hope that, in this context, the old would be vindicated and he new would seem banal--for banal it certainly seems...
Baker, 54, has been the leader of the Administration's pragmatists, describing himself as a conservative but following no strict political ideology. An outsider on the Reagan team in 1980, he overcame White House infighting, criticism from the far right, which considered him too moderate, and suspicion of involvement in the Debategate scandal to emerge as the President's most valuable player. He owes his success largely to an uncommon skill at forging coalitions across ideological lines. His finesse in dealing with politicians is matched by his rapport with much of the Washington press corps. In an Administration wary...