Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suspicion is that it's because the environment is harsher," Delgado says. "The environment is not as warm [for minorities] as it is for non-minorities...
...think about events during the Reagan years that we tend to forget, to look at this national amnesia of ours. Ronald Reagan has presided over a transformation of America from a country that wanted to be good to one that wanted to feel good -- which I have a suspicion should not be the highest priority of a community...
...five words, and rather bland ones at that. But they were among the most self-damaging the President of the U.S. could have uttered. "I was not fully informed," Ronald Reagan told the reporters he summoned to a special briefing last Tuesday. In an attempt to defend himself from suspicion of complicity in the biggest scandal to threaten Washington since Watergate, he thus highlighted the most fundamental flaw in his stewardship of the presidency, one that could undermine his effectiveness for the remaining two years of his term...
...dismaying pattern of new revelations and unconvincing explanations continues much longer. But it seems almost certain that whatever comes of the many investigations now in progress, Reagan will emerge as a diminished President, his aura of invincibility shattered, his fabled luck vanished, his every policy regarded with new suspicion...
...fear is not of incapacitation but of that dreadful "W" word: Watergate. However, it comes to the same thing. All over Washington last week there was a sickening feeling of "here we go again," a dread of another orgy of public self-flagellation, of deepening public suspicion that might undermine all governmental authority. Nor was that foreboding confined to the Administration's allies. Journalists could sense among those Congressmen most determined to investigate the Iran-contra scandal an unspoken fear of where the investigations might lead, a kind of silent prayer that it would not once again be straight into...