Word: suspicion
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...road-paving set-asides, and would significantly decrease the minority presence at the University of California's two flagship schools, Berkeley and ucla. Other states, or even Congress, may be inspired to copy the initiative. Its passage could influence future Supreme Court decisions on affirmative action, if the longstanding suspicion is true that the Court takes note of election returns. Affirmative action might also become a "wedge issue" in national politics, something so highly charged that it could move voters' fundamental loyalty from one party to another...
Even if those in the Labor camp were not immediately persuaded by the scenes of mayhem to change their allegiance to Netanyahu and the Likud Party, perhaps they now have a better appreciation for their fellow Israelis' reluctance to support the Oslo Accords in the first place. The valid suspicion of Israeli moderates over the questionable issue of placing automatic machine guns into their enemy's hands gained immeasurable credibility when the barrels of those very guns were directed against the Israelis themselves last week. A Palestinian witness, confirmed by both The New York Times and The Washington Post, admitted...
...Vote campaign, and for the idea of activist voter registration in general. They bother me in much the same way it bother me when playoff ticket land in the laps of casual fans. I have no real grounds to be annoyed, but still, there's an undeniable elitist suspicion that if people don't have to work hard for precious things, they won't appreciate what they're getting...
...important damage from the polymorphous con jobs on political display this year is symbolic and atmospheric. Morris' train wreck last week, compounded by his ideological promiscuity, adds to the widespread public suspicion that it takes an unwholesome personality--a professional liar or a power fetishist--to go into politics in the first place.The conventional rules of hypocrisy have been modernized by the principles of television--life as a continuously temporary hallucination. Just as an image on the screen five minutes ago is only a memory on the retina and has no necessary connection to the image on the screen right...
Although Clinton won the 1992 election with only 43% of the vote, there were moments of popular enthusiasm--such as that first postconvention bus tour--that are difficult to imagine this year. During Reagan's first four years, widespread suspicion melted into widespread affection. During Clinton's, something like the opposite has happened...