Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bags. Epstein took 25%, and the band got the rest. As young, hungry rockers playing in Hamburg, West Germany, the Beatles contracted, and were cured of, any number of venereal diseases. Later, rich and famous beyond anyone's wildest imaginings, they would become infected with incurable jealousy and suspicion, some of which was well founded. The final blow, Brown writes, came in one of those stultifying board meetings when the other Beatles discovered that McCartney had been secretly buying up shares in their publishing company behind then" collective back...
...continuing characters, most of whom belong to the staff of the American Embassy in London. The milieu of the foreign service career is appropriate for the sorts of people Theroux writes about rootless by nature, somewhat surprised at having aged so quickly without realizing it, and with a nagging suspicion that in all their travels they have always missed out on something, although they're not quite sure what...
...major source of my suspicion is that this ground was so thoroughly covered by so many people that it is highly improbable that the diaries could have existed without anyone knowing of them," Galbraith said...
...specific proposals Hart forwards some trigger the suspicion that he is proposing them simply he cause they are new, not because of any profound understanding or support for them. His prosecutions on Tax-Based Income Policies (TIP) to control inflation and consumption taxes--rather than income taxes to reform the tax code, are both brief. Neither sections acknowledges the administrative barriers which would seriously erode such programs' implementation not do they address the political problems which have led many politicians and economists to write both proposals...
Computers, which can correct, expand, recopy and print words at the flick of a key, have increasingly stirred the interest of writing and language arts teachers, a group that once eyed the computer revolution with suspicion and dread. Two years ago, researchers at New York City's progressive Bank Street College of Education decided to find out how word processors might affect the writing of their students. They had a few hundred grade-school children and a dozen microcomputers. But they lacked one necessary ingredient: a suitable writing program. Recalls President Richard Ruopp: "We tested the available word processors...