Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rigidity," muttered Scoop, as if the word had a bad taste. "Partisan politicians, ideologues," he added with equal suspicion. "We have to make this system work, and you cannot go out and look in a book for directions. We need intellectual pragmatism with integrity...
...telemetry-the thousands of bits of data that enable Mission Control to monitor everything from the astronauts' heartbeats to temperatures in various parts of the ship. Investigating further, the controllers found three of the four telemetry channels had gone silent. No one could immediately explain why, although one suspicion was a computer error. But controllers saw no reason for alarm. Other radio links were available for transmitting the information, which, in any case, was not needed for a safe landing. So after a few nervous moments, the astronauts could look forward to spending a full week in space, Columbia...
...villagers are polite to strangers but are always careful that visits do not last too long for fear they will cause suspicion. Says a nervous schoolteacher: "The life we have here is on credit, day to day. The people go indoors early in the evening and stay there until daybreak. We wake up not knowing if we are going to sleep again in the evening. We don't tell the truth, even to people we know. We've lost faith in everyone and everything. If we find a dead body, we leave it for the dogs...
...knows? We might actually enjoy having billions of extra dollars available to provide for education, health care, and environmental clean-up. Moreover, it is just possible that, by providing both sides the new experience of not racing, a freeze could produce the psychological breakthrough needed to case growing mutual suspicion. And for those who despair of ever seeing such mutual trust between the United States and Russia in these post-SALT II days, it is worth remembering that arms agreements between the United States and Soviet Union have ample precedent. Previous pacts include the 1963 Nuclear Test Ban treaty...
When Israel gamed control of the West Bank in June 1967, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was still a fledgling group, viewed with suspicion by much of the political leadership in the West Bank Arab public officials and civil servants looked to king Hussein of Jordan as their political guardian. Today the situation has changed markedly. It an Arab public figure in the West Bank wavers in his commitment to Palestinian nationalism or tempers his support for the PLO and its strategy of terror, he risks not only his political career but also his life Among the Arabs...