Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week, Bush called for even more drug testing. But some legal scholars complain that random drug testing of all employees, whether or not they are suspected of using illegal substances, disregards the venerable notion of "probable cause" -- that a search can be triggered only by a well- founded suspicion of criminal action by a particular individual. "When you start saying a search satisfies the Fourth Amendment even though it's not based on any focused suspicion at all, you've ripped the heart out of the Fourth Amendment," insists University of Michigan law professor Yale Kamisar...
...agents masquerading as brokers spotted some wrongdoing in the pits where U.S. Treasury bonds and Swiss francs are traded, the bulk of the charges are directed at the Board of Trade's soybean pit and the Merc's Japanese yen pit. The yen traders have long been viewed with suspicion by other brokers, while the old clique of soybean traders had a reputation for playing by their own, traditional rules and resisting interference, even from their exchange officials. The Government has accused no fewer than 19 of the 50 soybean brokers and 21 of the 70 yen traders of running...
...anger and suspicion toward doctors are easy to measure, even without reading the tabloids or watching Geraldo for the latest tally of medical misdeeds. When the American Medical Association conducts surveys of public attitudes toward physicians, it finds a troubling loss of faith. Even people who esteem their own physicians often deride the profession as a whole. In 1987, 37% of those polled did not believe doctors take a genuine interest in their patients. Only 45% believed doctors "usually explain things well to their patients...
...conservative backlash. These policies have fostered the idea that Blacks will eternally require more preferential treatment (i.e. are innately inferior) and that Blacks will never develop the work ethic of American political culture, among other of its aspects. In the workplace and the university, affirmative action leaves the nagging suspicion among all involved that Blacks are taking the place of more qualified whites...
...suspicion is that the new James Bond will prove a little puritanical for the modern movie audience. In the last movie, the cause celebre was safe sex, and Bond made the unheard of move of ordering separate hotel rooms for himself and his lady friend...